The 12CO Gas Structures of Protoplanetary Disks in the Upper Scorpius Region
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| author | Zallio, Luigi Rosotti, Giovanni P. Vioque, Miguel Miotello, Anna Andrews, Sean M. Manara, Carlo F. Carpenter, John M. Empey, Aaron Kurtovic, Nicolás T. Law, Charles J. Longarini, Cristiano Paneque-Carreño, Teresa Teague, Richard Villenave, Marion Yen, Hsi-Wei Zagaria, Francesco |
| author_facet | Zallio, Luigi Rosotti, Giovanni P. Vioque, Miguel Miotello, Anna Andrews, Sean M. Manara, Carlo F. Carpenter, John M. Empey, Aaron Kurtovic, Nicolás T. Law, Charles J. Longarini, Cristiano Paneque-Carreño, Teresa Teague, Richard Villenave, Marion Yen, Hsi-Wei Zagaria, Francesco |
| contents | We present measurements of key protoplanetary disk properties inferred from parametric models of ALMA 12CO spectral line visibilities. We derive gas-disk radii, integrated fluxes, optically thick emission layers, and brightness temperature profiles for the disk population of the old (4 - 14 Myr) Upper Scorpius star-forming region. We measure CO emission sizes for 37 disks with bright CO J=3-2 emission (S/N > 10 on the integrated flux; out of the 83 disks with CO detections), finding that the median radius containing 90% of the flux is ~84 au, with radii spanning from 23 up to 243 au. We report a correlation between the 12CO brightness temperatures and stellar luminosities, with a Pearson coefficient of 0.6, and we use it to prove that the 12CO optically thick emission layer primarily emanates from a region below the super-heated dust, which is optically thin to the stellar irradiation. Moreover, we derive 33 CO emission surface height profiles, finding a median aspect ratio <z/r> ~ 0.16 in a range from ~0.01 up to ~0.45 over the sample. Finally, we comment on the multiple systems in our sample, of which only some were already known. These results re-affirm how it is possible to derive bulk disk properties by modeling moderate angular resolution ALMA visibilities. |
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| spellingShingle | The 12CO Gas Structures of Protoplanetary Disks in the Upper Scorpius Region Zallio, Luigi Rosotti, Giovanni P. Vioque, Miguel Miotello, Anna Andrews, Sean M. Manara, Carlo F. Carpenter, John M. Empey, Aaron Kurtovic, Nicolás T. Law, Charles J. Longarini, Cristiano Paneque-Carreño, Teresa Teague, Richard Villenave, Marion Yen, Hsi-Wei Zagaria, Francesco Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics We present measurements of key protoplanetary disk properties inferred from parametric models of ALMA 12CO spectral line visibilities. We derive gas-disk radii, integrated fluxes, optically thick emission layers, and brightness temperature profiles for the disk population of the old (4 - 14 Myr) Upper Scorpius star-forming region. We measure CO emission sizes for 37 disks with bright CO J=3-2 emission (S/N > 10 on the integrated flux; out of the 83 disks with CO detections), finding that the median radius containing 90% of the flux is ~84 au, with radii spanning from 23 up to 243 au. We report a correlation between the 12CO brightness temperatures and stellar luminosities, with a Pearson coefficient of 0.6, and we use it to prove that the 12CO optically thick emission layer primarily emanates from a region below the super-heated dust, which is optically thin to the stellar irradiation. Moreover, we derive 33 CO emission surface height profiles, finding a median aspect ratio <z/r> ~ 0.16 in a range from ~0.01 up to ~0.45 over the sample. Finally, we comment on the multiple systems in our sample, of which only some were already known. These results re-affirm how it is possible to derive bulk disk properties by modeling moderate angular resolution ALMA visibilities. |
| title | The 12CO Gas Structures of Protoplanetary Disks in the Upper Scorpius Region |
| topic | Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16734 |