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Temperature, Mass and Turbulence: A Spatially Resolved Multi-Band Non-LTE Analysis of CS in TW~Hya

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2018-09-19 v1

Abstract

Observations of multiple rotational transitions from a single molecule allow for unparalleled constraints on the physical conditions of the emitting region. We present an analysis of CS in TW~Hya using the J=76J=7-6, 545-4 and 323-2 transitions imaged at 0.5\sim 0.5^{\prime\prime} spatial resolution, resulting in a temperature and column density profile of the CS emission region extending out to 230~au, far beyond previous measurements. In addition, the 15~kHz resolution of the observations and the ability to directly estimate the temperature of the CS emitting gas, allow for one of the most sensitive searches for turbulent broadening in a disk to date. Limits of vturb0.1csv_{\rm turb} \lesssim 0.1 c_s can be placed across the entire radius of the disk. We are able to place strict limits of the local H2_2 density due to the collisional excitations of the observed transitions. From these we find that a minimum disk mass of 3×104 Msun3 \times 10^{-4}~M_{\rm sun} is required to be consistent with the CS excitation conditions and can uniquely constrain the gas surface density profile in the outer disk.

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@article{arxiv.1808.01768,
  title  = {Temperature, Mass and Turbulence: A Spatially Resolved Multi-Band Non-LTE Analysis of CS in TW~Hya},
  author = {Richard Teague and Thomas Henning and Stephane Guilloteau and Edwin Bergin and Dmitri Semenov and Anne Dutrey and Mario Flock and Uma Gorti and Tilman Birnstiel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.01768},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Accepted by ApJ