Imaging the HL Tauri disk at lambda=2.7 millimeters with the BIMA array

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作者
Mundy, LG [1 ]
Looney, LW [1 ]
Erickson, W [1 ]
Grossman, A [1 ]
Welch, WJ [1 ]
Forster, JR [1 ]
Wright, MCH [1 ]
Plambeck, RL [1 ]
Lugten, J [1 ]
Thornton, DD [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV CALIF BERKELEY,RADIO ASTRON LAB,BERKELEY,CA 94720
基金
美国国家航空航天局; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
circumstellar matter; dust; extinction; infrared; stars; radio continuum; stars stars; formation; individual (HL Tauri);
D O I
10.1086/310117
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We have obtained a subarcsecond image of the disk associated with the T Tauri star HL Tau at a wavelength of 2.7 mm using the new high-resolution capability of the BIMA Array. The disk is elongated with a deconvolved Gaussian source size of 1.'' 0 +/- 0.'' 2 x 0 ''.5 +/- 0 ''.2, implying a semimajor axis of 70 +/- 15 AU for a distance of 140 pc; the minor axis may be unresolved. The position angle of the major axis (125 degrees +/- 10 degrees) is orthogonal to the axis of the optical jet. The disk centroid is coincident with the VLA lambda = 3.6 cm source position and nearly coincident with recent measurements of the near-infrared emission peak. The lambda = 2.7 mm images, along with previous interferometric measurements at lambda = 0.87 mm and flux measurements from 10 mu m to 1.3 cm, are well fitted by a simple power-law disk model with a shallow radial dependence to the surface density [Sigma(r) proportional to r(0) to r(-1)], an outer radius between 90 and 160 AU, and a dust opacity law proportional to nu(1).
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