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308625.0,
MPI für Astronomie / Publikationen_mpia |
| Formation and evolution of planetary systems: Upper limits to the gas mass in disks around sun-like stars |
| Authors: | Pascucci, I.; Gorti, U.; Hollenbach, D.; Najita, J.; Meyer, M. R.; Carpenter, J. M.; Hillenbrand, L. A.; Herczeg, G. J.; Padgett, D. L.; Mamajek, E. E.; Silverstone, M. D.; Schlingman, W. M.; Kim, J. S.; Stobie, E. B.; Bouwman, J.; Wolf, S.; Rodmann, J.; Hines, D. C.; Lunine, J.; Malhotra, R. | | Date of Publication (YYYY-MM-DD): | 2006 | | Journal Abbrev.: | The Astrophysical Journal | | Volume: | 651 | | Start Page: | 1177 | | End Page: | 1193 | | Audience: | Not Specified | | Abstract / Description: | We have carried out a sensitive search for gas emission lines at IR and millimeter wavelengths for a sample of 15 young Sun-like stars selected from our dust disk survey with Spitzer. We have used mid-IR lines to trace the warm (300-100 K) gas in the inner disk and millimeter transitions of 12CO to probe the cold (~20 K) outer disk. We report no gas line detections from our sample. Line flux upper limits are first converted to warm and cold gas mass limits using simple approximations allowing a direct comparison with values from the literature. We also present results from more sophisticated models following Gorti & Hollenbach that confirm and extend our simple analysis. These models show that the [S I] 25.23 mum line can set constraining limits on the gas surface density at the disk inner radius and traces disk regions up to a few AU. We find that none of the 15 systems have more than 0.04MJ of gas within a few AU from the disk inner radius for disk radii from 1 to ~40 AU. These gas mass upper limits even in the eight systems younger than ~30 Myr suggest that most of the gas is dispersed early. The gas mass upper limits in the 10-40 AU region, which is mainly traced by our CO data, are <2 Mâ. If these systems are analogs of the solar system, they either have already formed Uranus- and Neptune-like planets or will not form them beyond 100 Myr. Finally, the gas surface density upper limits at 1 AU are smaller than 0.01% of the minimum mass solar nebula for most of the sources. If terrestrial planets form frequently and their orbits are circularized by gas, then circularization occurs early. | | Free Keywords: | Stars: Circumstellar Matter; Infrared: Stars; Stars: Planetary Systems: Formation; Solar System: Formation | | External Publication Status: | published | | Document Type: | Article |
| Communicated by: | N. N. | | Affiliations: | MPI für Astronomie | | Identifiers: | URL:http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bi...
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