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Article Dans Une Revue The Astrophysical Journal Année : 2024

Detection of Dimethyl Ether in the Central Region of the MWC 480 Protoplanetary Disk

Yoshihide Yamato
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Yuri Aikawa
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Viviana V. Guzmán
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Kenji Furuya
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Shota Notsu
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Gianni Cataldi
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Karin I. Öberg
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Chunhua Qi
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Charles J. Law
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Jane Huang
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Richard Teague
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Characterizing the chemistry of complex organic molecules (COMs) at the epoch of planet formation provides insights into the chemical evolution of the interstellar medium (ISM) and the origin of organic materials in our solar system. We report a detection of dimethyl ether (CH3OCH3) in the disk around the Herbig Ae star MWC 480 with sensitive Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations. This is the first detection of CH3OCH3 in a nontransitional Class II disk. The spatially unresolved, compact (≲25 au in radius) nature, broad line width (∼30 km s‑1), and high excitation temperature (∼200 K) indicate the sublimation of COMs in the warm inner disk. Despite the detection of CH3OCH3, methanol (CH3OH), the most abundant COM in the ISM, has not been detected, from which we constrain the column density ratio of CH3OCH3/CH3OH ≳ 7. This high ratio may indicate the reprocessing of COMs during the disk phase, as well as the effect of the physical structure in the inner disk. We also find that this ratio is higher than in COM-rich transition disks recently discovered. This may indicate that in the full disk of MWC 480, COMs have experienced substantial chemical reprocessing in the innermost region, while the COM emission in the transition disks predominantly traces the inherited ice sublimating at the dust cavity edge located at larger radii (≳20 au).
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Yoshihide Yamato, Yuri Aikawa, Viviana V. Guzmán, Kenji Furuya, Shota Notsu, et al.. Detection of Dimethyl Ether in the Central Region of the MWC 480 Protoplanetary Disk. The Astrophysical Journal, 2024, 974, ⟨10.3847/1538-4357/ad6981⟩. ⟨insu-04836801⟩
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