Imaging the Disk around TW Hya with the Submillimeter Array

Details Imaging the Disk around TW Hya with the Submillimeter Array Imaging the Disk around TW Hya with the Submillimeter Array

2004-03-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0403412v1

Astrophys.J. 616 (2004) L11-L14

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/421063

We present ~2"-4" aperture synthesis observations of the circumstellar disk surrounding the nearby young star TW Hya in the CO J=2--1 and J=3--2 lines and associated dust continuum obtained with the partially completed Submillimeter Array. The extent and peak flux of the 230 and 345 GHz dust emission follow closely the predictions of the irradiated accretion disk model of Calvet et al. (2002). The resolved molecular line emission extends to a radius of at least 200 AU, the full extent of the disk visible in scattered light, and shows a clear pattern of Keplerian rotation. Comparison of the images with 2D Monte Carlo models constrains the disk inclination angle to 7+/-1 degrees. The CO emission is optically thick in both lines, and the kinetic temperature in the line formation region is ~20K. Substantial CO depletion, by an order of magnitude or more from canonical dark cloud values, is required to explain the characteristics of the line emission.

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