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dc.contributor.authorTesti, L.
dc.contributor.authorNatta, A.
dc.contributor.authorScholz, A.
dc.contributor.authorTazzari, M.
dc.contributor.authorRicci, L.
dc.contributor.authorde Gregorio Monsalvo, I.
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-01T12:30:18Z
dc.date.available2016-11-01T12:30:18Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationTesti , L , Natta , A , Scholz , A , Tazzari , M , Ricci , L & de Gregorio Monsalvo , I 2016 , ' Brown dwarf disks with ALMA : evidence for truncated dust disks in Ophiuchus ' , Astronomy & Astrophysics , vol. 593 , A111 , pp. 1-11 . https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628623en
dc.identifier.issn0004-6361
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 247294169
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 6d72a0dc-0196-45cf-a3d3-0ea2cdb7ca67
dc.identifier.otherBibtex: urn:7222a04a44eed18148f89596dcb82f73
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84990061209
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000385820100093
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/9745
dc.descriptionA.N. acknowledges funding from Science Foundation Ireland (Grant 13/ERC/I2907). This work was partly supported by the Gothenburg Centre for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology as part of the GoCAS program Origins of Habitable Planets and by the Italian Ministero dell’Istruzione, Università e Ricerca through the grant Progetti Premiali 2012-iALMA (CUP C52I13000140001).en
dc.description.abstractContext. The study of the properties of disks around young brown dwarfs can provide important clues on the formation of these very low-mass objects and on the possibility of forming planetary systems around them. The presence of warm dusty disks around brown dwarfs is well known, based on near- and mid-infrared studies. Aims. High angular resolution observations of the cold outer disk are limited; we used ALMA to attempt a first survey of young brown dwarfs in the ρ Oph star-forming region. Methods. All 17 young brown dwarfs in our sample were observed at 890 μm in the continuum at ~0.̋5 angular resolution. The sensitivity of our observations was chosen to detect ~0.5 M⊕ of dust. Results. We detect continuum emission in 11 disks (~65% of the total), and the estimated mass of dust in the detected disks ranges from ~0.5 to ~6 M⊕. These disk masses imply that planet formation around brown dwarfs may be relatively rare and that the supra-Jupiter mass companions found around some brown dwarfs are probably the result of a binary system formation. We find evidence that the two brightest disks in ρ Oph have sharp outer edges at R ≲ 25 AU, in contrast to disks around Taurus brown dwarfs. This difference may suggest that the different environment in ρ Oph may lead to significant differences in disk properties. A comparison of the Mdisk/M∗ ratio for brown dwarf and solar-mass systems also shows a possible deficit of mass in brown dwarfs, which could support the evidence for dynamical truncation of disks in the substellar regime. These findings are still tentative and need to be put on firmer grounds by studying the gaseous disks around brown dwarfs and by performing a more systematic and unbiased survey of the disk population around the more massive stars.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofAstronomy & Astrophysicsen
dc.rights© ESO, 2016. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628623en
dc.subjectProtoplanetary disksen
dc.subjectBrown dwarfsen
dc.subjectStars: formationen
dc.subjectSubmillimeter: planetary systemsen
dc.subjectQB Astronomyen
dc.subjectQC Physicsen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subject.lccQBen
dc.subject.lccQCen
dc.titleBrown dwarf disks with ALMA : evidence for truncated dust disks in Ophiuchusen
dc.typeJournal articleen
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dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628623
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttps://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06448en


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