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ALMA Survey of Lupus Protoplanetary Disks I: Dust and Gas Masses

arXiv:1604.05719 · doi:10.3847/0004-637X/828/1/46

Abstract

We present the first high-resolution sub-mm survey of both dust and gas for a large population of protoplanetary disks. Characterizing fundamental properties of protoplanetary disks on a statistical level is critical to understanding how disks evolve into the diverse exoplanet population. We use ALMA to survey 89 protoplanetary disks around stars with in the young (1--3~Myr), nearby (150--200~pc) Lupus complex. Our observations cover the 890~m continuum and the CO and CO 3--2 lines. We use the sub-mm continuum to constrain to a few Martian masses (0.2--0.4~) and the CO isotopologue lines to constrain to roughly a Jupiter mass (assuming ISM-like abundance). Of 89 sources, we detect 62 in continuum, 36 in CO, and 11 in CO at significance. Stacking individually undetected sources limits their average dust mass to Lunar masses (0.03~), indicating rapid evolution once disk clearing begins. We find a positive correlation between and , and present the first evidence for a positive correlation between and , which may explain the dependence of giant planet frequency on host star mass. The mean dust mass in Lupus is 3 higher than in Upper Sco, while the dust mass distributions in Lupus and Taurus are statistically indistinguishable. Most detected disks have and gas-to-dust ratios , assuming ISM-like abundance; unless CO is very depleted, the inferred gas depletion indicates that planet formation is well underway by a few Myr and may explain the unexpected prevalence of super-Earths in the exoplanet population.

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