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FAUST XVII: Super deuteration in the planet forming system IRS 63 where the streamer strikes the disk

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2024-08-14 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

Recent observations suggest that planets formation starts early, in protostellar disks of 105\le10^5 yrs, which are characterized by strong interactions with the environment, e.g., through accretion streamers and molecular outflows. To investigate the impact of such phenomena on disk physical and chemical properties it is key to understand what chemistry planets inherit from their natal environment. In the context of the ALMA Large Program Fifty AU STudy of the chemistry in the disk/envelope system of Solar-like protostars (FAUST), we present observations on scales from ~1500 au to ~60 au of H2_2CO, HDCO, and D2_2CO towards the young planet-forming disk IRS~63. H2_2CO probes the gas in the disk as well as in a large scale streamer (~1500 au) impacting onto the South-East (SE) disk side. We detect for the first time deuterated formaldehyde, HDCO and D2_2CO, in a planet-forming disk, and HDCO in the streamer that is feeding it. This allows us to estimate the deuterium fractionation of H2_2CO in the disk: [HDCO]/[H2_2CO]0.10.3\sim0.1-0.3 and [D2_2CO]/[H2_2CO]0.1\sim0.1. Interestingly, while HDCO follows the H2_2CO distribution in the disk and in the streamer, the distribution of D2_2CO is highly asymmetric, with a peak of the emission (and [D]/[H] ratio) in the SE disk side, where the streamer crashes onto the disk. In addition, D2_2CO is detected in two spots along the blue- and red-shifted outflow. This suggests that: (i) in the disk, HDCO formation is dominated by gas-phase reactions similarly to H2_2CO, while (ii) D2_2CO was mainly formed on the grain mantles during the prestellar phase and/or in the disk itself, and is at present released in the gas-phase in the shocks driven by the streamer and the outflow. These findings testify on the key role of streamers in the build-up of the disk both concerning the final mass available for planet formation and its chemical composition.

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@article{arxiv.2407.04813,
  title  = {FAUST XVII: Super deuteration in the planet forming system IRS 63 where the streamer strikes the disk},
  author = {L. Podio and C. Ceccarelli and C. Codella and G. Sabatini and D. Segura-Cox and N. Balucani and A. Rimola and P. Ugliengo and C. J. Chandler and N. Sakai and B. Svoboda and J. Pineda and M. De Simone and E. Bianchi and P. Caselli and A. Isella and Y. Aikawa and M. Bouvier and E. Caux and L. Chahine and S. B. Charnley and N. Cuello and F. Dulieu and L. Evans and D. Fedele and S. Feng and F. Fontani and T. Hama and T. Hanawa and E. Herbst and T. Hirota and I. Jiménez-Serra and D. Johnstone and B. Lefloch and R. Le Gal and L. Loinard and H. Baobab Liu and A. López-Sepulcre and L. T. Maud and M. J. Maureira and F. Menard and A. Miotello and G. Moellenbrock and H. Nomura and Y. Oba and S. Ohashi and Y. Okoda and Y. Oya and T. Sakai and Y. Shirley and L. Testi and C. Vastel and S. Viti and N. Watanabe and Y. Watanabe and Y. Zhang and Z. E. Zhang and S. Yamamoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.04813},
  year   = {2024}
}

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12 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication on A&A