Disk Sizes and Grain Growth across the Brown Dwarf Boundary from the Taurus Boundary of Stellar/Substellar (TBOSS) Survey
Abstract
With a combination of submm/mm observations from ALMA, CSO, and PdBI, we are investigating the properties of disks around low mass stars and brown dwarfs in the Taurus star-forming region. Disk sizes and spectral slopes are important properties to assess the formation scenarios for brown dwarfs and the viability of planet formation in the disks. The ALMA maps have a beam size of approximately 0.3arcseconds and a number of the sources are spatially resolved in the continuum and CO(3-2) line measurements. For most of the resolved systems, the gas disks are more extended than the dust disks, similar to previous results from observations of more massive stars. From the multi-wavelength data, we are measuring the spectral slope of the emission to search for the signature of initial grain growth that is encoded in the slope of the spectral energy distribution in order to test the hypothesis of enhanced radial drift in disks around substellarobjects. Theoretical studies have suggested that fast radial drift could prevent the growth of dust particles up to large bodies in brown dwarf disks, and our program is designed to obtain a set of measurements for objects across the stellar/substellar transition.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #229
- Pub Date:
- January 2017
- Bibcode:
- 2017AAS...22934505P