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SMA and ALMA Studies of Disk- and Planet Formation around Low-mass Protostars

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2017-11-02 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We report our current SMA and ALMA studies of disk and planet formation around protostars. We have revealed that rr \gtrsim100 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 \sim 3-times smaller than the free-fall velocities, and the rotational profiles follow the r1r^{-1} profile, that is, rotation with the conserved specific angular momentum. Our latest high-resolution (\sim0\farcs\farcs5) ALMA studies, as well as the other studies in the literature, have unveiled that rr \sim100-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\lessimr \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.

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@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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