Chemistry in circumstellar disks - CS toward HL Tauri

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Jun 1992

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 391, no. 2, June 1, 1992, p. L99-L103. Research supported by Davi

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Interstellar Chemistry, Molecular Clouds, Pre-Main Sequence Stars, Stellar Envelopes, Cosmic Dust, Emission Spectra, Radiative Transfer, Stellar Mass, Stellar Spectrophotometry

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High spatial and spectral resolution dust continuum and CS line-emission maps of the material immediately surrounding HL Tauri are presented. The 3.06-thermal dust map gives an upper limit to the source size of roughly 200 AU. When combined with previous millimeter continuum measurements, a beta value of 1.2 +/-0.3 is derived along with a disk mass of 0.1 solar mass, in agreement with previous disk radiative transfer models of the IR and submillimeter flux from HL Tau. The low dust emissivity index as compared to particles in the diffuse ISM is best explained by grain growth or composition evolution. The present observations of the CS and CO emission lines forming the molecular cloud surrounding HL Tauri are consistent with the 'canonical' temperatures, densities, and abundances derived in other Taurus cloud cores. In contrast, the CS emission in aperture synthesis maps at 650-AU spatial resolution is most consistent with CS/CO ratios at least 25-50 times lower in the gas immediately surrounding HL Tauri if the CS emission is optically thin. The continuum and spectral line results obtained are strong indicators of conditions thought to be similar to those in the presolar nebula some 4.5 AE ago.

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