Searching for Gas-Rich Disks around T Tauri Stars in Lupus

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2006-06-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606302v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, with online section, accepted by A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20065174

AIMS : To characterize the molecular environment of classical T Tauri stars in Lupus observed with the Spitzer Space Telescope and to search for gas-rich disks toward these sources. METHODS : Submillimeter observations of 12CO, 13CO and C18O in the J=3-2 and 2-1 lines were obtained with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope toward a sample of 21 T Tauri stars with disks in the Lupus molecular clouds. Pointings at the sources and at selected off-positions are presented in order to disentangle material associated with disks from ambient cloud material. RESULTS : One source, IM Lup (Sz 82), has been found with double-peaked 12CO and 13CO profiles characteristic of a large rotating gas disk. The inclination of the disk is found to be ~20 degrees, with an outer radius of 400-700 AU. For most other sources, including GQ Lup with its substellar companion, the single-dish 12CO lines are dominated by extended cloud emission with a complex velocity structure. No evidence for molecular outflows is found. Compact C18O emission due to dense circumstellar material has been detected toward only two sources. Future searches for gas-rich disks in Lupus should either use interferometers or perform very deep single-dish integrations in dense gas tracers to separate the cloud and disk emission.

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