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A Three-Dimensional View of Turbulence: Constraints on Turbulent Motions in the HD 163296 Protoplanetary Disk using DCO

arXiv:1706.04504 · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa79f9

Abstract

Gas kinematics are an important part of the planet formation process. Turbulence influences planetesimal growth and migration from the scale of sub-micron dust grains through gas-giant planets. Radio observations of resolved molecular line emission can directly measure this non-thermal motion and, taking advantage of the layered chemical structure of disks, different molecular lines can be combined to map the turbulence throughout the vertical extent of a protoplanetary disk. Here we present ALMA observations of three molecules (DCO(3-2), CO(2-1) and CO(2-1)) from the disk around HD 163296. We are able to place stringent upper limits (0.06c, 0.05c and 0.04c for CO(2-1), CO(2-1) and DCO(3-2) respectively), corresponding to 310, similar to our prior limit derived from CO(3-2). This indicates that there is little turbulence throughout the vertical extent of the disk, contrary to theoretical predictions based on the magneto-rotational instability and gravito-turbulence. In modeling the DCO emission we also find that it is confined to three concentric rings at 65.70.9 au, 149.9 au and 2591 au, indicative of a complex chemical environment.

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