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Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). XIII. HCO+ and Disk Ionization Structure

Yuri Aikawa
Gianni Cataldi
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Yoshihide Yamato
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Ke Zhang
  • Fonction : Auteur
Alice S. Booth
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Kenji Furuya
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Sean M. Andrews
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Jaehan Bae
Edwin A. Bergin
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Jennifer B. Bergner
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Arthur D. Bosman
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L. Ilsedore Cleeves
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Ian Czekala
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Viviana V. Guzmán
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Jane Huang
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John D. Ilee
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Charles J. Law
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Ryan A. Loomis
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Hideko Nomura
Karin I. Öberg
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Chunhua Qi
Kamber R. Schwarz
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Richard Teague
Takashi Tsukagoshi
Catherine Walsh
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David J. Wilner
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Résumé

We observed HCO+ J = 1 - 0 and H13CO+ J = 1 - 0 emission toward the five protoplanetary disks around IM Lup, GM Aur, AS 209, HD 163296, and MWC 480 as part of the MAPS project. HCO+ is detected and mapped at 0"3 resolution in all five disks, while H13CO+ is detected (S/N > 6σ) toward GM Aur and HD 163296 and tentatively detected (S/N > 3σ) toward the other disks by a matched filter analysis. Inside a radius of R ~ 100 au, the HCO+ column density is flat or shows a central dip. At outer radii (≳100 au), the HCO+ column density decreases outward, while the column density ratio of HCO+/CO is mostly in the range of ~10-5-10-4. We derived the HCO+ abundance in the warm CO-rich layer, where HCO+ is expected to be the dominant molecular ion. At R ≳ 100 au, the HCO+ abundance is ~3 × 10-11 - 3 × 10-10, which is consistent with a template disk model with X-ray ionization. At the smaller radii, the abundance decreases inward, which indicates that the ionization degree is lower in denser gas, especially inside the CO snow line, where the CO-rich layer is in the midplane. Comparison of template disk models with the column densities of HCO+, N2H+, and N2D+ indicates that the midplane ionization rate is ≳10-18 s-1 for the disks around IM Lup, AS 209, and HD 163296. We also find hints of an increased HCO+ abundance around the location of dust continuum gaps in AS 209, HD 163296, and MWC 480. This paper is part of the MAPS special issue of the Astrophysical Journal Supplement.

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insu-03672367 , version 1 (19-05-2022)

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Yuri Aikawa, Gianni Cataldi, Yoshihide Yamato, Ke Zhang, Alice S. Booth, et al.. Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). XIII. HCO+ and Disk Ionization Structure. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2021, 257, ⟨10.3847/1538-4365/ac143c⟩. ⟨insu-03672367⟩
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