The effect of the streaming instability on protoplanetary disc emission at millimetre wavelengths

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate whether overdensity formation via streaming instability is consistent with recent multi-wavelength ALMA observations in the Lupus star forming region. We simulate the local action of streaming instability in 2D using the code ATHENA, and examine the radiative properties at mm wavelengths of the resulting clumpy dust distribution by focusing on two observable quantities: the optically thick fraction $ff$ (in ALMA band 6) and the spectral index $\alpha$ (in bands 3-7). By comparing the simulated distribution in the $ff-\alpha$ plane before and after the action of streaming instability, we observe that clump formation causes $ff$ to drop, because of the suppression of emission from grains that end up in optically thick clumps. $\alpha$, instead, can either increase or decline after the action of streaming instability; we use a simple toy model to demonstrate that this behaviour depends on the sizes of the grains whose emission is suppressed by being incorporated in optically thick clumps. In particular, the sign of evolution of $\alpha$ depends on whether grains near the opacity maximum at a few tenths of a mm end up in clumps. By comparing the simulation distributions before/after clump formation to the data distribution, we note that the action of streaming instability drives simulations towards the area of the plane where the data are located. We furthermore demonstrate that this behaviour is replicated in integrated disc models provided that the instability is operative over a region of the disc that contributes significantly to the total mm flux.

arXiv comment16 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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