exoALMA IV: Substructures, Asymmetries, and the Faint Outer Disk in Continuum Emission
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| author | Curone, Pietro Facchini, Stefano Andrews, Sean M. Testi, Leonardo Benisty, Myriam Czekala, Ian Huang, Jane Ilee, John D. Isella, Andrea Lodato, Giuseppe Loomis, Ryan A. Stadler, Jochen Winter, Andrew J. Bae, Jaehan Barraza-Alfaro, Marcelo Cataldi, Gianni Cuello, Nicolás Fasano, Daniele Flock, Mario Fukagawa, Misato Galloway-Sprietsma, Maria Garg, Himanshi Hall, Cassandra Izquierdo, Andrés F. Kanagawa, Kazuhiro Lesur, Geoffroy Longarini, Cristiano Menard, Francois Orihara, Ryuta Pinte, Christophe Price, Daniel J. Rosotti, Giovanni Teague, Richard Wafflard-Fernandez, Gaylor Wilner, David J. Wölfer, Lisa Yen, Hsi-Wei Yoshida, Tomohiro C. Zawadzki, Brianna |
| author_facet | Curone, Pietro Facchini, Stefano Andrews, Sean M. Testi, Leonardo Benisty, Myriam Czekala, Ian Huang, Jane Ilee, John D. Isella, Andrea Lodato, Giuseppe Loomis, Ryan A. Stadler, Jochen Winter, Andrew J. Bae, Jaehan Barraza-Alfaro, Marcelo Cataldi, Gianni Cuello, Nicolás Fasano, Daniele Flock, Mario Fukagawa, Misato Galloway-Sprietsma, Maria Garg, Himanshi Hall, Cassandra Izquierdo, Andrés F. Kanagawa, Kazuhiro Lesur, Geoffroy Longarini, Cristiano Menard, Francois Orihara, Ryuta Pinte, Christophe Price, Daniel J. Rosotti, Giovanni Teague, Richard Wafflard-Fernandez, Gaylor Wilner, David J. Wölfer, Lisa Yen, Hsi-Wei Yoshida, Tomohiro C. Zawadzki, Brianna |
| contents | The exoALMA Large Program targeted a sample of 15 disks to study gas dynamics within these systems, and these observations simultaneously produced continuum data at 0.9 mm (331.6 GHz) with exceptional surface brightness sensitivity at high angular resolution. To provide a robust characterization of the observed substructures, we performed a visibility space analysis of the continuum emission from the exoALMA data, characterizing axisymmetric substructures and nonaxisymmetric residuals obtained by subtracting an axisymmetric model from the observed data. We defined a nonaxisymmetry index and found that the most asymmetric disks predominantly show an inner cavity and consistently present higher values of mass accretion rate and near-infrared excess. This suggests a connection between outer disk dust substructures and inner disk properties. The depth of the data allowed us to describe the azimuthally averaged continuum emission in the outer disk, revealing that larger disks (both in dust and gas) in our sample tend to be gradually tapered compared to the sharper outer edge of more compact sources. Additionally, the data quality revealed peculiar features in various sources, such as shadows, inner disk offsets, tentative external substructures, and a possible dust cavity wall. |
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| spellingShingle | exoALMA IV: Substructures, Asymmetries, and the Faint Outer Disk in Continuum Emission Curone, Pietro Facchini, Stefano Andrews, Sean M. Testi, Leonardo Benisty, Myriam Czekala, Ian Huang, Jane Ilee, John D. Isella, Andrea Lodato, Giuseppe Loomis, Ryan A. Stadler, Jochen Winter, Andrew J. Bae, Jaehan Barraza-Alfaro, Marcelo Cataldi, Gianni Cuello, Nicolás Fasano, Daniele Flock, Mario Fukagawa, Misato Galloway-Sprietsma, Maria Garg, Himanshi Hall, Cassandra Izquierdo, Andrés F. Kanagawa, Kazuhiro Lesur, Geoffroy Longarini, Cristiano Menard, Francois Orihara, Ryuta Pinte, Christophe Price, Daniel J. Rosotti, Giovanni Teague, Richard Wafflard-Fernandez, Gaylor Wilner, David J. Wölfer, Lisa Yen, Hsi-Wei Yoshida, Tomohiro C. Zawadzki, Brianna Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics The exoALMA Large Program targeted a sample of 15 disks to study gas dynamics within these systems, and these observations simultaneously produced continuum data at 0.9 mm (331.6 GHz) with exceptional surface brightness sensitivity at high angular resolution. To provide a robust characterization of the observed substructures, we performed a visibility space analysis of the continuum emission from the exoALMA data, characterizing axisymmetric substructures and nonaxisymmetric residuals obtained by subtracting an axisymmetric model from the observed data. We defined a nonaxisymmetry index and found that the most asymmetric disks predominantly show an inner cavity and consistently present higher values of mass accretion rate and near-infrared excess. This suggests a connection between outer disk dust substructures and inner disk properties. The depth of the data allowed us to describe the azimuthally averaged continuum emission in the outer disk, revealing that larger disks (both in dust and gas) in our sample tend to be gradually tapered compared to the sharper outer edge of more compact sources. Additionally, the data quality revealed peculiar features in various sources, such as shadows, inner disk offsets, tentative external substructures, and a possible dust cavity wall. |
| title | exoALMA IV: Substructures, Asymmetries, and the Faint Outer Disk in Continuum Emission |
| topic | Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18725 |