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COMPARISON OF THE DUST AND GAS RADIAL STRUCTURE IN THE TRANSITION DISK [PZ99] J160421.7-213028

Journal

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 791, Issue 1, Pages -

Publisher

IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/791/1/42

Keywords

protoplanetary disks; stars: pre-main sequence; submillimeter: stars

Funding

  1. NSF [AST-1109334, AST-1140063, AST-1109857]
  2. NASA [NNX11AK86G]
  3. Division Of Astronomical Sciences
  4. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1109857] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
  5. NASA [143302, NNX11AK86G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER

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We present ALMA observations of the 880 m continuum and CO J = 3- 2 line emission from the transition disk around [PZ99] J160421.7- 213028, a solar mass star in the Upper Scorpius OB association. Analysis of the continuum data indicates that 80% of the dust mass is concentrated in an annulus extending between 79 and 114 AU in radius. Dust is robustly detected inside the annulus, at a mass surface density 100 times lower than that at 80 AU. The CO emission in the inner disk also shows a significantly decreased mass surface density, but we infer a cavity radius of only 31 AU for the gas. The large separation of the dust and gas cavity edges, as well as the high radial concentration of millimeter- sized dust grains, is qualitatively consistent with the predictions of pressure trap models that include hydrodynamical disk- planet interactions and dust coagulation/ fragmentation processes.

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