Deuterated molecules in DM Tau: DCO+, but no HDO

Details Deuterated molecules in DM Tau: DCO+, but no HDO Deuterated molecules in DM Tau: DCO+, but no HDO

2006-02-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602396v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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10.1051/0004-6361:200600005

We report the detection of the J=2-1 line of DCO+ in the proto-planetary disk of DM Tau and re-analyze the spectrum covering the 465 GHz transition of HDO in this source, recently published by Ceccarelli et al. (2005). A modelling of the DCO+ line profile with the source parameters derived from high resolution HCO+ observations yields a DCO+/HCO+ abundance ratio of about 0.004, an order of magnitude smaller than that derived in the low mass cores. The re-analysis of the 465 GHz spectrum, using the proper continuum flux (0.5 Jy) and source systemic velocity (6.05 km/s), makes it clear that the absorption features attributed to HDO and C6H are almost certainly unrelated to these species. We show that the line-to-continuum ratio of an absorption line in front of a Keplerian disk can hardly exceed the ratio of the turbulent velocity to the projected rotation velocity at the disk edge, unless the line is optically very thick (tau > 10 000). This ratio is typically 0.1-0.3 in proto-planetary disks and is about 0.15 in DM Tau, much smaller than that for the alleged absorption features. We also show that the detection of H2D+ in DM Tau, previously reported by these authors, is only a 2-sigma detection when the proper velocity is adopted. So far, DCO+ is thus the only deuterated molecule clearly detected in proto-planetary disks.

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