Booth, AS;
Leemker, M;
van Dishoeck, EF;
Evans, L;
Ilee, JD;
Kama, M;
Keyte, L;
... Walsh, C; + view all
(2024)
An ALMA Molecular Inventory of Warm Herbig Ae Disks. I. Molecular Rings, Asymmetries, and Complexity in the HD 100546 Disk.
The Astronomical Journal
, 167
(4)
, Article 164. 10.3847/1538-3881/ad2700.
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Abstract
Observations of disks with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) allow us to map the chemical makeup of nearby protoplanetary disks with unprecedented spatial resolution and sensitivity. The typical outer Class II disk observed with ALMA is one with an elevated C/O ratio and a lack of oxygen-bearing complex organic molecules, but there are now some interesting exceptions: three transition disks around Herbig Ae stars all show oxygen-rich gas traced via the unique detections of the molecules SO and CH3OH. We present the first results of an ALMA line survey at ≈337–357 GHz of such disks and focus this paper on the first Herbig Ae disk to exhibit this chemical signature—HD 100546. In these data, we detect 19 different molecules including NO, SO_{2}, and CH_{3}OCHO (methyl formate). We also make the first tentative detections of H^{13}_{2}CO and {34}^SO in protoplanetary disks. Multiple molecular species are detected in rings, which are, surprisingly, all peaking just beyond the underlying millimeter continuum ring at ≈200 au. This result demonstrates a clear connection between the large dust distribution and the chemistry in this flat disk. We discuss the physical and/or chemical origin of these substructures in relation to ongoing planet formation in the HD 100546 disk. We also investigate how similar and/or different this molecular makeup of this disk is to other chemically well-characterized Herbig Ae disks. The line-rich data we present motivate the need for more ALMA line surveys to probe the observable chemistry in Herbig Ae systems, which offer unique insight into the composition of disks ices, including complex organic molecules.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | An ALMA Molecular Inventory of Warm Herbig Ae Disks. I. Molecular Rings, Asymmetries, and Complexity in the HD 100546 Disk |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3847/1538-3881/ad2700 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad2700 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189835 |
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