An evla and carma study of dusty disks and torii with large grains in dying stars

Details An evla and carma study of dusty disks and torii with large grains in dying stars An evla and carma study of dusty disks and torii with large grains in dying stars

2011-06-21

arxiv.org/abs/1106.4276v1

Astrophysical Journal (Letters) 2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

accepted for special Astrophysical Journal (Letters) EVKA issue

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We report the results of a pilot multiwavelength survey in the radio continuum (X, Ka and Q bands, i.e., from 3.6 cm to 7 mm) carried out with the EVLA in order to confirm the presence of very large dust grains in dusty disks and torii around the central stars in a small sample of post-AGB objects, as inferred from millimeter and sub-millimeter observations. Supporting mm-wave observations were also obtained with CARMA towards three of our sources. Our EVLA survey has resulted in a robust detection of our most prominent submm emission source, the pre-planetary nebula IRAS 22036+5306, in all three bands, and the disk-prominent post-AGB object, RV Tau, in one band. The observed fluxes are consistent with optically-thin free-free emission, and since they are insignificant compared to their submm/mm fluxes, we conclude that the latter must come from substantial masses of cool, large (mm-sized) grains. We find that the power-law emissivity in the cm-to-submm range for the large grains in IRAS22036 is nu^{beta}, with beta=1-1.3. Furthermore, the value of beta in the 3 to 0.85 mm range for the three disk-prominent post-AGB sources (beta < or = 0.4) is significantly lower than that of IRAS22036, suggesting that the grains in post-AGB objects with circumbinary disks are likely larger than those in the dusty waists of pre-planetary nebulae.

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