VLA Imaging of the Disk Surrounding the Nearby Young Star TW Hya

Abstract

The TW Hya system is perhaps the closest analog to the early solar nebula. We have used the Very Large Array to image TW Hya at wavelengths of 7mm and 3.6 cm with resolutions 0.1 arcseconds (about 5 AU) and 1.0 arcseconds (about 50 AU), respectively. The 7mm emission is extended and appears dominated by a dusty disk of radius larger than 50 AU surrounding the star. The 3.6 cm emission is unresolved and likely arises from an ionized wind or gyrosynchrotron activity. The dust spectrum and spatially resolved 7mm images of the TW Hya disk are fitted by a simple model with temperature and surface density described by radial power laws, $T(r)\propto r^{-0.5}$ and $\Sigma (r)\propto r^{-1}$. These properties are consistent with an irradiated gaseous accretion disk of mass $\sim 0.03{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot }$ with an accretion rate $\sim 10^{-8}{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot }\mathrm{y}{\mathrm{r}}^{-1}$ and viscosity parameter $\alpha =0.01$. The estimates of mass and mass accretion rates are uncertain as the gas-to-dust ratio in the TW Hya disk may have evolved from the standard interstellar value.

13 pages, 3 figures, accepted by ApJ Letters

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