MINDS. Strong oxygen depletion in the inner regions of a very low-mass star disk?

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Auteurs principaux: Kanwar, Jayatee, Kamp, Inga, Woitke, Peter, van Dishoeck, Ewine F., Henning, Thomas, Liu, Yao, Kaeufer, Till, Tabone, Benoît, Güdel, Manuel, Barrado, David, Arabhavi, Aditya M., Franceschi, Riccardo, Vlasblom, Marissa
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author Kanwar, Jayatee
Kamp, Inga
Woitke, Peter
van Dishoeck, Ewine F.
Henning, Thomas
Liu, Yao
Kaeufer, Till
Tabone, Benoît
Güdel, Manuel
Barrado, David
Arabhavi, Aditya M.
Franceschi, Riccardo
Vlasblom, Marissa
author_facet Kanwar, Jayatee
Kamp, Inga
Woitke, Peter
van Dishoeck, Ewine F.
Henning, Thomas
Liu, Yao
Kaeufer, Till
Tabone, Benoît
Güdel, Manuel
Barrado, David
Arabhavi, Aditya M.
Franceschi, Riccardo
Vlasblom, Marissa
contents JWST is discovering a plethora of species in planet-forming disks around very low-mass stars such as C2H2, C6H6, C4H2, CH3 etc. The column densities of these species retrieved from 0D slab models are very large, e.g. of the order of $10^{20}$\,cm$^{-2}$. This is indicating a carbon-dominated chemistry in a gas with a high C/O ratio. The disk around 2MASS-J1605321-1993159 (M4.5) is one such source showing a molecular pseudo-continuum of C2H2. Still two oxygen-bearing molecules, CO and CO2 are also detected in this source. We aim to take the next step beyond 0D slab models to interpret the spectrum. We examine whether 2D thermo-chemical disk models can produce the large inferred column densities of \ce{C2H2} in the inner regions of the disk and produce a pseudo-continuum in the mid-IR spectrum. We also want to constrain whether depletion of oxygen or enrichment of carbon is causing the high C/O ratio triggering a carbon-dominated chemistry. We utilize the radiative thermo-chemical disk model P{\tiny RO}D{\tiny I}M{\tiny O} to identify a disk structure which is capable of producing the observed molecular emission of species such as CO, CO2, C2H2, and H2O simultaneously. The spectrum is generated using the fast line tracer FLiTs. We derive the gas temperature $\langle T \rangle$, column density $\langle$ log$_{\rm {10}} N\rangle$ and the emitting area $\langle r_{\rm{1}} - r_{\rm{2}} \rangle$ for these molecules from the 2D disk model and compare them to the parameters retrieved originally from 0D slab models. We use the different effect that changing the O or C abundance has on CO and C2H2 respectively to discriminate between O depletion and C enhancement. We find that a disk structure characterised by the presence of a gap can best explain the observations. The inner disk is strongly depleted in dust, especially small grains ($<5\,μ$m), and ..
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spellingShingle MINDS. Strong oxygen depletion in the inner regions of a very low-mass star disk?
Kanwar, Jayatee
Kamp, Inga
Woitke, Peter
van Dishoeck, Ewine F.
Henning, Thomas
Liu, Yao
Kaeufer, Till
Tabone, Benoît
Güdel, Manuel
Barrado, David
Arabhavi, Aditya M.
Franceschi, Riccardo
Vlasblom, Marissa
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
JWST is discovering a plethora of species in planet-forming disks around very low-mass stars such as C2H2, C6H6, C4H2, CH3 etc. The column densities of these species retrieved from 0D slab models are very large, e.g. of the order of $10^{20}$\,cm$^{-2}$. This is indicating a carbon-dominated chemistry in a gas with a high C/O ratio. The disk around 2MASS-J1605321-1993159 (M4.5) is one such source showing a molecular pseudo-continuum of C2H2. Still two oxygen-bearing molecules, CO and CO2 are also detected in this source. We aim to take the next step beyond 0D slab models to interpret the spectrum. We examine whether 2D thermo-chemical disk models can produce the large inferred column densities of \ce{C2H2} in the inner regions of the disk and produce a pseudo-continuum in the mid-IR spectrum. We also want to constrain whether depletion of oxygen or enrichment of carbon is causing the high C/O ratio triggering a carbon-dominated chemistry. We utilize the radiative thermo-chemical disk model P{\tiny RO}D{\tiny I}M{\tiny O} to identify a disk structure which is capable of producing the observed molecular emission of species such as CO, CO2, C2H2, and H2O simultaneously. The spectrum is generated using the fast line tracer FLiTs. We derive the gas temperature $\langle T \rangle$, column density $\langle$ log$_{\rm {10}} N\rangle$ and the emitting area $\langle r_{\rm{1}} - r_{\rm{2}} \rangle$ for these molecules from the 2D disk model and compare them to the parameters retrieved originally from 0D slab models. We use the different effect that changing the O or C abundance has on CO and C2H2 respectively to discriminate between O depletion and C enhancement. We find that a disk structure characterised by the presence of a gap can best explain the observations. The inner disk is strongly depleted in dust, especially small grains ($<5\,μ$m), and ..
title MINDS. Strong oxygen depletion in the inner regions of a very low-mass star disk?
topic Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11761