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Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) V: Possible Annular Substructure in a Circumstellar Disk in the Ced110 IRS4 System

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2023-09-01 v2 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We have observed the Class 0/I protostellar system Ced110 IRS4 at an angular resolution of 0.050.05'' (\sim10 au) as a part of the ALMA large program; Early Planet Formation in the Embedded Disks (eDisk). The 1.3 mm dust continuum emission reveals that Ced110 IRS4 is a binary system with a projected separation of \sim250 au. The continuum emissions associated with the main source and its companion, named Ced110 IRS4A and IRS4B respectively, exhibit disk-like shapes and likely arise from dust disks around the protostars. The continuum emission of Ced110 IRS4A has a radius of \sim91.7 au (0.485\sim0.485''), and shows bumps along its major axis with an asymmetry. The bumps can be interpreted as an shallow, ring-like structure at a radius of \sim40 au (0.2\sim0.2'') in the continuum emission, as demonstrated from two-dimensional intensity distribution models. A rotation curve analysis on the C18^{18}O and 13^{13}CO J=2J=2-1 lines reveals the presence of a Keplerian disk within a radius of 120 au around Ced110 IRS4A, which supports the interpretation that the dust continuum emission arises from a disk. The ring-like structure in the dust continuum emission might indicate a possible, annular substructure in the surface density of the embedded disk, although the possibility that it is an apparent structure due to the optically thick continuum emission cannot be ruled out.

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@article{arxiv.2307.08952,
  title  = {Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) V: Possible Annular Substructure in a Circumstellar Disk in the Ced110 IRS4 System},
  author = {Jinshi Sai and Hsi-Wei Yen and Nagayoshi Ohashi and John J. Tobin and Jes K. Jørgensen and Shigehisa Takakuwa and Kazuya Saigo and Yusuke Aso and Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin and Patrick M. Koch and Yuri Aikawa and Christian Flores and Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo and Ilseung Han and Miyu Kido and Woojin Kwon and Shih-Ping Lai and Chang Won Lee and Jeong-Eun Lee and Zhi-Yun Li and Leslie W. Looney and Shoji Mori and Nguyen Thi Phuong and Alejandro Santamaría-Miranda and Rajeeb Sharma and Travis J. Thieme and Kengo Tomida and Jonathan P. Williams},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.08952},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

32 pages, 23 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ as one of the first-look papers of the eDisk ALMA Large Program