We report our current SMA and ALMA studies of disk and planet formation around protostars. We have revealed that r≳100 AU scale disks in Keplerian rotation are ubiquitous around Class I sources. These Class I Keplerian disks are often embedded in rotating and infalling protostellar envelopes. The infalling speeds of the protostellar envelopes are typically ∼ 3-times smaller than the free-fall velocities, and the rotational profiles follow the r−1 profile, that is, rotation with the conserved specific angular momentum. Our latest high-resolution (∼0\farcs5) ALMA studies, as well as the other studies in the literature, have unveiled that r∼100-AU scale Keplerian disks are also present in several Class 0 protostars, while in the other Class 0 sources the inferred upper limits of the Keplerian disks are very small (r\lessim20 AU). Our recent data analyses of the ALMA long baseline data of the Class I-II source HL Tau have revealed gaps in molecular gas as well as in dust in the surrounding disk, suggesting the presence of sub-Jovian planets in the disk. These results imply that disk and planet formation should be completed in the protostellar stage.
@article{arxiv.1711.00447,
title = {SMA and ALMA Studies of Disk- and Planet Formation around Low-mass Protostars},
author = {Shigehisa Takakuwa and Hsi-Wei Yen and Ti-Lin Chou and Nagayoshi Ohashi and Yusuke Aso and Patrick M. Koch and Ruben Krasnopolsky and Paul T. P. Ho and Hauyu Baobab Liu and Naomi Hirano and Pin-Gao Gu and Chin-Fei Lee and Evaria Puspitaningrum and Yuri Aikawa and Masahiro N. Machida and Kazuya Saigo and Masao Saito and Kengo Tomida and Kohji Tomisaka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.00447},
year = {2017}
}
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