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Probing CO and N2 Snow Surfaces in Protoplanetary Disks with N2H+ Emission

  • Authors: Chunhua Qi, Karin I. Öberg, Catherine C. Espaillat, Connor E. Robinson, Sean M. Andrews, David J. Wilner, Geoffrey A. Blake, Edwin A. Bergin, and L. Ilsedore Cleeves

2019 The Astrophysical Journal 882 160.

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Caption: Figure 1.

Continuum images and N2H+ 3 − 2 integrated intensity maps and spectra. First row: intensity maps of the 284 GHz dust continuum. Contours are drawn at [5, 10, 20, 40, 80, 160...]σ, where σ is the rms listed in Table 3. Note the continuum substructure in the LkCa 15, GM Aur, DM Tau, and AS 209 disks. Second row: integrated intensity maps of N2H+ 3 − 2. Color bars start at 2σ, where σ is the rms of the integrated intensity map. Synthesized beams are drawn in the lower right corners of each panel. The centroid of the continuum image is marked with a cross. The offset from the centroid, in arcseconds, is marked on the y-axis of the upper left corner panel. The N2H+ maps display a range of morphologies from narrow to broad rings. Third row: spectra of N2H+ 3 − 2 show the double-peaked shape characteristic of a Keplerian rotation disk. Even though there are 29 hyperfine components for the N2H+ 3 − 2 line (see Appendix B), the dominant components spread less than 0.4 km s−1. The vertical red line marks the systemic velocity.

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