Modelling the secular evolution of proto-planetary disc dust sizes -- A comparison between the viscous and magnetic wind case

Abstract

For many years proto-planetary discs have been thought to evolve viscously: angular momentum redistribution leads to accretion and outward disc spreading. Recently, the hypothesis that accretion is due, instead, to angular momentum removal by magnetic winds gained new popularity: no disc spreading is expected in this case. In this paper, we run several one-dimensional gas and dust simulations to make predictions on the time-evolution of disc sizes \textit{in the dust} and to assess whether they can be used to understand how discs evolve. We show that viscous and magnetic wind models have very different dust disc radii. In particular, MHD wind models are compact and their sizes either remain constant or decrease with time. On the contrary, discs become larger with time in the viscous case (when $\alpha \gtrsim 10^{-3}$). Although current observations lack enough sensitivity to discriminate between these two scenarios, higher-sensitivity surveys could be fruitful to this goal on a $1\mathrm{to}10\mathrm{Myr}$ age range. When compared with the available ALMA Band~7 data, both viscous and magnetic wind models are compatible with the observationally-inferred dust radii in Lupus, Chamaeleon~I and Upper Sco. Furthermore, in the drift-dominated regime, the size-luminosity correlation is reproduced in Lupus, both in Band~7 and 3, while in Upper Sco a different slope than in the data is predicted. Sub-structures (potentially undetected) can explain several outliers with large observed sizes. Higher-angular-resolution observations will be helpful to test our predictions in the case of more compact discs, expected in both frameworks, particularly at the age of Upper Sco.

19 pages, 10 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS

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