The Taurus Boundary of stellar/substellar (TBOSS) survey. II. Disk masses from ALMA continuum observations
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Ward Duong, K.
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Patience, J.
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Bulger, J.
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Van der Plas, Gerrit
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Menard, F.
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Pinte, Christophe
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Jackson, A. P.
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Bryden, G.
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Turner, N. J.
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Harvey, P.
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Hales, A.
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Rosa, R. J. de
Admission date
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2018-07-26T15:20:15Z
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2018-07-26T15:20:15Z
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2018
Cita de ítem
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The Astronomical Journal, 155:54 (26pp), 2018
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10.3847/1538-3881/aaa128
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https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/150312
Abstract
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We report 885 mu m ALMA continuum flux densities for 24 Taurus members spanning the stellar/substellar boundary with spectral types from M4 to M7.75. Of the 24 systems, 22 are detected at levels ranging from 1.0 to 55.7 mJy. The two nondetections are transition disks, though other transition disks in the sample are detected. Converting ALMA continuum measurements to masses using standard scaling laws and radiative transfer modeling yields dust mass estimates ranging from similar to 0.3 to 20M(circle plus). The dust mass shows a declining trend with central object mass when combined with results from submillimeter surveys of more massive Taurus members. The substellar disks appear as part of a continuous sequence and not a distinct population. Compared to older Upper Sco members with similar masses across the substellar limit, the Taurus disks are brighter and more massive. Both Taurus and Upper Sco populations are consistent with an approximately linear relationship in M-dust to M-star, although derived power-law slopes depend strongly upon choices of stellar evolutionary model and dust temperature relation. The median disk around early-M stars in Taurus contains a comparable amount of mass in small solids as the average amount of heavy elements in Kepler planetary systems on short-period orbits around M-dwarf stars, with an order of magnitude spread in disk dust mass about the median value. Assuming a gas-to-dust ratio of 100:1, only a small number of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs have a total disk mass amenable to giant planet formation, consistent with the low frequency of giant planets orbiting M dwarfs.
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Patrocinador
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
DGE-1311230
NSF from the NRAO (Student Observing Support Program)
SOSPA3-007
NSF Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide supplemental award
13074525
NASA's Science Mission Directorate
NNX15AD53G
Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Strategic University Research Partnerships (SURP) program
Millennium Science Initiative (Chilean Ministry of Economy)
RC130007
FONDECYT
3140393
ANR of France
ANR-16-CE31-0013
NASA
NNX16AI31G
NSF
AST-1518332
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
NNX15AC89G
NASA NExSS grant
NNX15AD95G
NASA
NSF
CONICYT