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An ALMA survey of DCN/HCN and DCO/HCO in protoplanetary disks

arXiv:1701.01735 · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/835/2/231

Abstract

The deuterium enrichment of molecules is sensitive to their formation environment. Constraining patterns of deuterium chemistry in protoplanetary disks is therefore useful for probing how material is inherited or reprocessed throughout the stages of star and planet formation. We present ALMA observations at resolution of DCO, HCO, DCN, and HCN in the full disks around T Tauri stars AS 209 and IM Lup, the transition disks around T Tauri stars V4046 Sgr and LkCa 15, and the full disks around Herbig Ae stars MWC 480 and HD 163296. We also present ALMA observations of HCN in the IM Lup disk. DCN, DCO, and HCO are detected in all disks, and HCN in all but the IM Lup disk. We find efficient deuterium fractionation for the sample, with estimates of disk-averaged DCO/HCO and DCN/HCN abundance ratios ranging from and , respectively, which is comparable to values reported for other ISM environments. The relative distributions of DCN and DCO vary between disks, suggesting that multiple formation pathways may be needed to explain the diverse emission morphologies. In addition, gaps and rings observed in both HCO and DCO emission provide new evidence that DCO bears a complex relationship with the location of the midplane CO snowline.

36 pages, 14 figures, updated to match figure order of published version in ApJ

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