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Apr, 2017

Detection of Submillimeter-wave [CI] Emission in Gaseous Debris Disks of 49 Ceti and beta Pictoris

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
  • Aya E. Higuchi
  • Aki Sato
  • Takashi Tsukagoshi
  • Nami Sakai
  • Kazunari Iwasaki
  • Munetake Momose
  • Hiroshi Kobayashi
  • Daisuke Ishihara
  • Sakae Watanabe
  • Hidehiro Kaneda
  • Satoshi Yamamoto
  • Display all

Volume
839
Number
1
First page
14
Last page
19
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.3847/2041-8213/aa67f4
Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD

We have detected [C I] P-3(1)-P-3(0) emissions in the gaseous debris disks of 49 Ceti and beta Pictoris with the 10 m telescope of the Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment, which is the first detection of such emissions. The line profiles of [C I] are found to resemble those of CO(J = 3-2) observed with the same telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. This result suggests that atomic carbon (C) coexists with CO in the debris disks. and is likely formed by the photodissociation of CO. Assuming an optically thin [C I] emission with the excitation temperature ranging from 30 to 100. K, the column density of C is evaluated to be (2.2 +/- 0.2). x. 10(17) and (2.5 +/- 0.7). x. 10(16). cm(-2) for 49 Ceti and beta Pictoris, respectively. The C/CO column density ratio is thus derived to be 54 +/- 19 and 69 +/- 42 for 49 Ceti and beta Pictoris, respectively. These ratios are higher than those of molecular clouds and diffuse clouds by an order of magnitude. The unusually high ratios of C to CO are likely attributed to a lack of H-2 molecules needed to reproduce CO molecules efficiently from C. This result implies a small number of H-2 molecules in the gas disk,. i.e., there is an appreciable contribution of secondary gas from dust grains.

Link information
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa67f4
arXiv
http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1703.06661
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000399410200001&DestApp=WOS_CPL
URL
http://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06661v1
ID information
  • DOI : 10.3847/2041-8213/aa67f4
  • ISSN : 2041-8205
  • eISSN : 2041-8213
  • ORCID - Put Code : 114357241
  • arXiv ID : arXiv:1703.06661
  • SCOPUS ID : 85052729284
  • SCOPUS ID : 85018463198
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000399410200001

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