2025ApJ...984L..18T


Query : 2025ApJ...984L..18T

2025ApJ...984L..18T - Astrophys. J., 984, L18 (2025/May-1)

exoALMA. XIII. Gas Masses from N2H+ and C18O: A Comparison of Measurement Techniques for Protoplanetary Gas Disk Masses.

TRAPMAN L., LONGARINI C., ROSOTTI G.P., ANDREWS S.M., BAE J., BARRAZA-ALFARO M., BENISTY M., CATALDI G., CURONE P., CZEKALA I., FACCHINI S., FASANO D., FLOCK M., FUKAGAWA M., GALLOWAY-SPRIETSMA M., GARG H., HALL C., HUANG J., ILEE J.D., IZQUIERDO A.F., KANAGAWA K., LESUR G., LODATO G., LOOMIS R.A., ORIHARA R., PANEQUE-CARRENO T., PINTE C., PRICE D., STADLER J., TEAGUE R., VAN TERWISGA S., TESTI L., YEN H.-W., WAFFLARD-FERNANDEZ G., WILNER D.J., WINTER A.J., WOLFER L., YOSHIDA T.C., ZAWADZKI B. and ZHANG K.

Abstract (from CDS):

The gas masses of protoplanetary disks are important but elusive quantities. In this work we present new Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of N2H+ (3-2) for 11 exoALMA disks. N2H+ is a molecule sensitive to CO freeze-out and has recently been shown to significantly improve the accuracy of gas masses estimated from CO line emission. We combine these new observations with archival N2H+ and CO isotopologue observations to measure gas masses for 19 disks, predominantly from the exoALMA large program. For 15 of these disks the gas mass has also been measured using gas rotation curves. We show that the CO + N2H+ line emission-based gas masses typically agree with the kinematically measured ones within a factor of 3 (∼1σ-2σ). Gas disk masses from CO + N2H+ are on average a factor of ${2.3}_{-1.0}^{+0.7}\times $ lower than the kinematic disk masses, which could suggest slightly lower N2 abundances and/or lower midplane ionization rates than typically assumed. Herbig disks are found to have CO gas abundances at the level of the interstellar medium based on their CO and N2H+ fluxes, which sets them apart from T Tauri disks, where abundances are typically ∼3-30× lower. The agreement between CO + N2H+-based and kinematically measured gas masses is promising and shows that multimolecule line fluxes are a robust tool to accurately measure disk masses at least for extended disks.

Abstract Copyright: © 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Protoplanetary disks - Astrochemistry - Interferometry - Radio interferometry

Simbad objects: 21

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Number of rows : 21
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
#notes
1 V* DM Tau Or* 04 33 48.7336763736 +18 10 09.973460280 14.30 14.82 14.00     M2Ve 731 0
2 V* AA Tau Or* 04 34 55.4201902392 +24 28 53.033624580 13.14 13.34 12.20 12.03   K5Ve 801 0
3 EM* LkCa 15 Or* 04 39 17.7911622816 +22 21 03.390090984   13.01 12.03 11.61   K5:Ve 792 1
4 V* GM Aur Or* 04 55 10.9815576936 +30 21 59.373771876 14.59 13.351 12.242 11.798   K3Ve 797 0
5 HD 31648 Ae* 04 58 46.2655706952 +29 50 36.987625680 7.84 7.78 7.62 7.76 7.43 A5Vep 612 0
6 V* V1366 Ori Ae* 05 16 00.4765181328 -09 48 35.393784012 10.19 10.16 9.84 9.77 9.63 B9.5V 253 0
7 HD 36112 Ae* 05 30 27.5285630040 +25 19 57.076288752   8.57 8.27     A8Ve 551 0
8 V* CQ Tau Ae* 05 35 58.4666264136 +24 44 54.091450572 11.290 10.780 10.000   8.33 F5IVe 360 0
9 V* SY Cha Or* 10 56 30.3883129248 -77 11 39.401977596         11.29 K5Ve 194 0
10 CPD-68 1894 TT* 13 22 07.5421944624 -69 38 12.219391716   11.38 10.393   9.117 K1Ve 203 0
11 HD 135344B Or* 15 15 48.4460065200 -37 09 16.024369824   9.21 8.708     F8V 548 0
12 THA 15-12 Or* 15 56 09.2066646912 -37 56 06.126118692   13.12 11.93 11.45   M0e 554 0
13 HD 143006 Or* 15 58 36.9126279888 -22 57 15.220559196   10.92 10.14   8.70 G5IVe 338 0
14 ATO J241.0901-21.5080 Or* 16 04 21.6547947840 -21 30 28.550063304   13.3       K2 190 0
15 WRAY 15-1443 TT* 16 15 20.2341630672 -32 55 05.097631872 13.88 13.22 12.00 11.658 10.50 K5 120 0
16 GSS 39 Or* 16 26 45.0318401664 -24 23 07.793180124           M0 255 1
17 EM* AS 209 TT* 16 49 15.3034917000 -14 22 08.643317664   12.62 11.28     K4Ve 494 0
18 HD 163296 Ae* 17 56 21.2881851168 -21 57 21.871819008 7.00 6.93 6.85 6.86 6.67 A3VaekA1mA1 1301 0
19 HD 319139 SB* 18 14 10.4818675368 -32 47 34.516836060   11.47 10.68   9.11 K5+K7 423 0
20 WRAY 15-1880 TT* 18 42 57.9813628512 -35 32 42.826760736   12.91 11.77     K2 84 0
21 IRAS 18489-3703 TT* 18 52 17.3013456504 -37 00 11.948920920   12.7 12.194   10.842 K7V 84 0

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