arXiv · 1011.0102
Detection of Strong Millimeter Emission from the Circumstellar Dust Disk Around V1094 Sco: Cold and Massive Disk around a T Tauri Star in a Quiescent Accretion Phase?
Abstract
We present the discovery of a cold massive dust disk around the T Tauri star V1094 Sco in the Lupus molecular cloud from the 1.1 millimeter continuum observations with AzTEC on ASTE. A compact ($r\lesssim$320 AU) continuum emission coincides with the stellar position having a flux density of 272 mJy which is largest among T Tauri stars in Lupus. We also present the detection of molecular gas associated with the star in the five-point observations in $^{12}$CO J=3--2 and $^{13}$CO J=3--2. Since our $^{12}$CO and $^{13}$CO observations did not show any signature of a large-scale outflow or a massive envelope, the compact dust emission is likely to come from a disk around the star. The observed SED of V1094 Sco shows no distinct turnover from near infrared to millimeter wavelengths, which can be well described by a flattened disk for the dust component, and no clear dip feature around 10 $\micron$ suggestive of absence of an inner hole in the disk. We fit a simple power-law disk model to the observed SED. The estimated disk mass ranges from 0.03 to $\gtrsim$0.12 $M_\sun$, which is one or two orders of magnitude larger than the median disk mass of T Tauri stars in Taurus.
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Takashi Tsukagoshi, Masao Saito, Yoshimi Kitamura, Munetake Momose, Yoshito Shimajiri, Masaaki Hiramatsu, Norio Ikeda, Kazuhisa Kamegai, Grant Wilson, Min S. Yun, Kimberly Scott, Jay Austermann, Thushara Perera, David Hughes, Itziar Aretxaga, Philip Mauskopf, Hajime Ezawa, Kotaro Kohno, Ryohei Kawabe. 2010-10-30. Detection of Strong Millimeter Emission from the Circumstellar Dust Disk Around V1094 Sco: Cold and Massive Disk around a T Tauri Star in a Quiescent Accretion Phase?. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x%2F726%2F1%2F45
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