Constraining turbulence mixing strength in transitional discs with planets using SPHERE and ALMA

Abstract

We investigate the effect that the turbulent mixing strength parameter ${\alpha }_{\mathrm{turb}}$ plays on near-infrared polarimetric and sub-millimetre interferometric imaging observations of transitional discs (TDs) with a gap carved by a planet. We generate synthetic observations of these objects with ALMA and VLT/SPHERE-ZIMPOL by combining hydrodynamical, dust evolution, radiative transfer and instrument models for values of ${\alpha }_{\mathrm{turb}}=[10^{-4},10^{-3},10^{-2}]$. We find that, through a combination of effects on the viscosity of the gas, the turbulent mixing and dust evolution processes, ${\alpha }_{\mathrm{turb}}$ strongly affects the morphology of the dust distribution that can be traced with these observations. We constrain the value of ${\alpha }_{\mathrm{turb}}$ to be within an order of magnitude of $10^{-3}$ in TD sources that show cavities in sub-mm continuum images while featuring continuous distribution of dust or smaller cavities in NIR-polarimetric images.

arXiv commentAccepted 2016 March 21, MNRAS Letters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 2016

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