Population Synthesis Models Indicate a Need for Early and Ubiquitous Disk Substructures
arxiv(2024)
摘要
Large mm surveys of star forming regions enable the study of entire
populations of planet-forming disks and reveal correlations between their
observable properties. Population studies of disks have shown that the
correlation between disk size and millimeter flux could be explained either
through disks with strong substructure, or alternatively by the effects of
radial inward drift of growing dust particles. This study aims to constrain the
parameters and initial conditions of planet-forming disks and address the
question of the need for the presence of substructures in disks and, if needed,
their predicted characteristics, based on the large samples of disk sizes,
millimeter fluxes, and spectral indices available. We performed a population
synthesis of the continuum emission of disks, exploiting a two-population model
(two-pop-py), considering the influence of viscous evolution, dust growth,
fragmentation, and transport varying the initial conditions of the disk and
substructure to find the best match to the observed distributions. We show that
the observed distributions of spectral indices, sizes, and luminosities
together can be best reproduced by disks with significant substructure, namely
a perturbation strong enough to be able to trap particles, and that is formed
early in the evolution of the disk, that is within 0.4Myr. Agreement is reached
by relatively high initial disk masses (10^-2.3M_⋆⩽
M_disk⩽10^-0.5M_⋆) and moderate levels of turbulence
(10^-3.5⩽α⩽ 10^-2.5). Other disk parameters play a
weaker role. Only opacities with high absorption efficiency can reproduce the
observed spectral indices. Our results extend to the whole population that
substructure is likely ubiquitous, so far assessed only in individual disks and
implies that most "smooth" disks hide unresolved substructure.
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