Herschel-PACS observation of the 10 Myr old T Tauri disk TW Hya Constraining the disk gas mass

Thi, W. -F., Mathews, G., Menard, F., Woitke, P., Meeus, G., Riviere-Marichalar, P., Pinte, C., Howard, C. D., Roberge, A., Sandell, G., Pascucci, I., Riaz, B., Grady, C. A., Dent, W. R. F., Kamp, I., Duchene, G., Augereau, J. -C., Pantin, E., Vandenbussche, B., Tilling, I., Williams, J. P., Eiroa, C., Barrado, D., Alacid, J. M., Andrews, S., Ardila, D. R., Aresu, G., Brittain, S., Ciardi, D. R., Danchi, W., Fedele, D., de Gregorio-Monsalvo, I., Heras, A., Huelamo, N., Krivov, A., Lebreton, J., Liseau, R., Martin-Zaidi, C., Mendigutia, I., Montesinos, B., Mora, A., Morales-Calderon, M., Nomura, H., Phillips, N., Podio, L., Poelman, D. R., Ramsay, S., Rice, K., Solano, E., Walker, H., White, G. J. and Wright, G. (2010) Herschel-PACS observation of the 10 Myr old T Tauri disk TW Hya Constraining the disk gas mass. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 518: L125. -. ISSN 0004-6361
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Planets are formed in disks around young stars. With an age of similar to 10 Myr, TW Hya is one of the nearest T Tauri stars that is still surrounded by a relatively massive disk. In addition a large number of molecules has been found in the TW Hya disk, making TW Hya the perfect test case in a large survey of disks with Herschel-PACS to directly study their gaseous component. We aim to constrain the gas and dust mass of the circumstellar disk around TW Hya. We observed the fine-structure lines of [OI] and [CII] as part of the open-time large program GASPS. We complement this with continuum data and ground-based (12) CO 3-2 and (CO)-C-13 3-2 observations. We simultaneously model the continuum and the line fluxes with the 3D Monte-Carlo code MCFOST and the thermo-chemical code ProDiMo to derive the gas and dust masses. We detect the [OI] line at 63 mu m. The other lines that were observed, [OI] at 145 mu m and [CII] at 157 mu m, are not detected. No extended emission has been found. Preliminary modeling of the photometric and line data assuming [(CO)-C-12]/[(CO)-C-13] = 69 suggests a dust mass for grains with radius < 1 mm of similar to 1.9 x 10(-4) M-circle dot (total solid mass of 3 x 10(-3) M-circle dot) and a gas mass of (0.5-5) x 10(-3) M-circle dot. The gas-to-dust mass may be lower than the standard interstellar value of 100.


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