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Astronomy: Faculty Publications

2018

Stars: formation

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The Taurus Boundary Of Stellar/Substellar (Tboss) Survey. Ii. Disk Masses From Alma Continuum Observations, Kimberly Ward-Duong, J. Patience, J. Bulger, G. Van Der Plas, F. Ménard, C. Pinte, A. P. Jackson, G. Bryden, N. J. Turner, P. Harvey, A. Hales, R. J. De Rosa Feb 2018

The Taurus Boundary Of Stellar/Substellar (Tboss) Survey. Ii. Disk Masses From Alma Continuum Observations, Kimberly Ward-Duong, J. Patience, J. Bulger, G. Van Der Plas, F. Ménard, C. Pinte, A. P. Jackson, G. Bryden, N. J. Turner, P. Harvey, A. Hales, R. J. De Rosa

Astronomy: Faculty Publications

We report 885 μm ALMA continuum flux densities for 24 Taurus members spanning the stellar/substellar boundary with spectral types from M4 to M7.75. Of the 24 systems, 22 are detected at levels ranging from 1.0 to 55.7 mJy. The two nondetections are transition disks, though other transition disks in the sample are detected. Converting ALMA continuum measurements to masses using standard scaling laws and radiative transfer modeling yields dust mass estimates ranging from ∼0.3 to 20 M ⊕. The dust mass shows a declining trend with central object mass when combined with results from submillimeter surveys of more massive Taurus …