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Nomura, Hideko; Ishimoto, Daiki; Okuzumi, Satoshi; Tsukagoshi, Takashi; Kawabe, Ryohei; Muto, Takayuki; Kanagawa, Kazuhiro D.; Ida, Shigeru; Walsh, Catherine; Millar, T. J.; Bai, Xue-Ning, E-mail: nomura@geo.titech.ac.jp2016
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[en] We report the first detection of a gap and a ring in 336 GHz dust continuum emission from the protoplanetary disk around TW Hya, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA). The gap and ring are located at around 25 and 41 au from the central star, respectively, and are associated with the CO snow line at ∼30 au. The gap has a radial width of less than 15 au and a mass deficit of more than 23%, taking into account that the observations are limited to an angular resolution of ∼15 au. In addition, the 13CO and C18O lines show a decrement in CO line emission throughout the disk, down to ∼10 au, indicating a freeze-out of gas-phase CO onto grain surfaces and possible subsequent surface reactions to form larger molecules. The observed gap could be caused by gravitational interaction between the disk gas and a planet with a mass less than super-Neptune (2), or could be the result of the destruction of large dust aggregates due to the sintering of CO ice.
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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/819/1/L7; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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Astrophysical Journal Letters; ISSN 2041-8205;
; v. 819(1); [7 p.]

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