A Three-dimensional View of Turbulence: Constraints on Turbulent Motions in the HD 163296 Protoplanetary Disk Using DCO
Gas kinematics are an important part of the planet formation process. Turbulence influences planetesimal growth and migration from the scale of submicron dust grains through gas-giant planets. Radio observations of resolved molecular line emission can directly measure this non-thermal motion and, ta...
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Published in: | The Astrophysical journal 2017-07, Vol.843 (2), p.150 |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , |
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Summary: | Gas kinematics are an important part of the planet formation process. Turbulence influences planetesimal growth and migration from the scale of submicron dust grains through gas-giant planets. Radio observations of resolved molecular line emission can directly measure this non-thermal motion and, taking advantage of the layered chemical structure of disks, different molecular lines can be combined to map the turbulence throughout the vertical extent of a protoplanetary disk. Here we present ALMA observations of three molecules (DCO+(3-2), C18O(2-1) and CO(2-1)) from the disk around HD 163296. We are able to place stringent upper limits (vturb < 0.06cs, |
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ISSN: | 0004-637X 1538-4357 |