Dust Stratification in Young Circumstellar Disks

Details Dust Stratification in Young Circumstellar Disks Dust Stratification in Young Circumstellar Disks

2006-03-01

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0603035v1

Astrophys.J. 646 (2006) 342-350

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1086/504703

We present high-resolution infrared spectra of four YSOs (T Tau N, T Tau S, RNO 91, and HL Tau). The spectra exhibit narrow absorption lines of 12CO, 13CO, and C18O as well as broad emission lines of gas phase12CO. The narrow absorption lines of CO are shown to originate from the colder circumstellar gas. We find that the line of sight gas column densities resulting from the CO absorption lines are much higher than expected for the measured extinction for each source and suggest the gas to dust ratio is measuring the dust settling and/or grain coagulation in these extended disks. We provide a model of turbulence, dust settling and grain growth to explain the results. The techniques presented here allow us to provide some observationally-motivated bounds on accretion disk alpha in protostellar systems.

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