Probing the eccentricity in protostellar discs -- Modeling kinematics and morphologies

Abstract

Protostellar discs are mostly modelled as circular structures of gas and dust orbiting a protostar. However, a number of physical mechanisms, e.g. the presence of a (sub)stellar companion or initial axial asymmetry, can cause the gas and dust orbital motion to become eccentric. Theoretical studies have revealed that, when present, disc eccentricity is expected to occur with predictable profiles that can be long-lasting and potentially observable in protostellar systems. We construct an analytical model predicting the typical features of the kinematics and morphology of eccentric protostellar discs, with the final goal of characterising the observational appearance of eccentricity in discs. We validate the model using a numerical simulation of a circumbinary disc (where the binary makes the disc eccentric). We finally post-process the simulation with Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer to study how eccentric features would appear through the "eyes" of ALMA. Besides the motion of the material on eccentric Keplerian orbits in the disc orbital plane, the most characteristic eccentric feature emerging from the analytical model is strong vertical motion with a typical anti-symmetric pattern (with respect to the disc line of pericentres). A circumbinary disc with a $\approx 40$ au eccentric cavity ($e_{\mathrm{cav}}=0.2$), carved by an $a_{\mathrm{bin}}=15$ au binary, placed at a distance $d=130$ pc, is expected to host in its upper emission surface vertical oscillations up to $v_z\sim 400{\mathrm{ms}}^{-1}$ close to the cavity edge, i.e. well within ALMA spectral and spatial resolution capabilities. A residual spiral pattern in the vertical velocity $\Delta v_z\sim 150{\mathrm{ms}}^{-1}$ of the simulation cannot be captured by the theoretical model, we speculate it to be possibly linked to the presence of a companion in the system.

20 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

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