2018AJ....155...54W -
Astron. J., 155, 54-54 (2018/February-0)
The Taurus Boundary of Stellar/Substellar (TBOSS) survey. II. Disk masses from ALMA continuum observations.
WARD-DUONG K., PATIENCE J., BULGER J., VAN DER PLAS G., MENARD F., PINTE C., JACKSON A.P., BRYDEN G., TURNER N.J., HARVEY P., HALES A. and DE ROSA R.J.
Abstract (from CDS):
We report 885 µm ALMA continuum flux densities for 24 Taurus members spanning the stellar/substellar boundary with spectral types from M4 to M7.75. Of the 24 systems, 22 are detected at levels ranging from 1.0 to 55.7 mJy. The two nondetections are transition disks, though other transition disks in the sample are detected. Converting ALMA continuum measurements to masses using standard scaling laws and radiative transfer modeling yields dust mass estimates ranging from ∼0.3 to 20 M⊕. The dust mass shows a declining trend with central object mass when combined with results from submillimeter surveys of more massive Taurus members. The substellar disks appear as part of a continuous sequence and not a distinct population. Compared to older Upper Sco members with similar masses across the substellar limit, the Taurus disks are brighter and more massive. Both Taurus and Upper Sco populations are consistent with an approximately linear relationship in Mdust to Mstar, although derived power-law slopes depend strongly upon choices of stellar evolutionary model and dust temperature relation. The median disk around early-M stars in Taurus contains a comparable amount of mass in small solids as the average amount of heavy elements in Kepler planetary systems on short-period orbits around M-dwarf stars, with an order of magnitude spread in disk dust mass about the median value. Assuming a gas-to-dust ratio of 100:1, only a small number of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs have a total disk mass amenable to giant planet formation, consistent with the low frequency of giant planets orbiting M dwarfs.
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Journal keyword(s):
brown dwarfs - protoplanetary disks - stars: formation - stars: low-mass - stars: pre-main sequence
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All or part of tables of objects could be ingested in SIMBAD with priority 2.
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Calibrator source J0509+1806 not identified.
Simbad objects:
43
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