Feasibility of detecting shadows in disks induced by infall

Abstract

Observations performed with high-resolution imaging techniques revealed the existence of shadows in circumstellar disks that can be explained by the misalignment of an inner with respect to an outer disk. The cause of misalignment, however, is still debated. In this study, we investigate the feasibility of observing shadows induced by one prominent scenario that may lead to misalignment, which involves the late infall of material onto a protostellar system. In particular, we use previously performed hydrodynamical simulations of such events, and generate flux maps in the visible, near-infrared, submillimeter, and millimeter wavelength range using Monte Carlo radiative transfer. Based on that, we derive synthetic observations of these systems performed with the instruments SPHERE/VLT and ALMA, which we use as a basis for our subsequent analysis. We find that near-infrared observations with SPHERE are particularly well suited for detecting shadows via direct imaging alongside other features such as gaps, arcs, and streamers. On the contrary, performing a shadow detection based on reconstructed ALMA observations is very challenging due to the high sensitivity that is required for this task. Thus, in cases that allow for a detection, sophisticated analyses may be needed, for instance by the utilization of carefully constructed azimuthal profiles, aiding the search for potentially shallow shadows. Lastly, we conclude that late infall-induced disk misalignment offers a plausible explanation for the emergence of shadows that are observed in various systems.

arXiv commentAccepted for publication in A&A, 16 pages, 16 figures, 1 table

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