Candidate Water Vapor Lines to Locate the H2O Snowline through High-dispersion Spectroscopic Observations. III. Submillimeter H216O and H218O Lines
Abstract
In this paper, we extend the results presented in our former papers (Notsu et al. 2016, 2017) on using ortho-H216O line profiles to constrain the location of the H2O snowline in T Tauri and Herbig Ae disks, to include sub-millimeter para-H216O and ortho- and para-H218O lines. Since the number densities of the ortho- and para-H218O molecules are about 560 times smaller than their 16O analogues, they trace deeper into the disk than the ortho-H216O lines (down to z=0, i.e., the midplane). Thus these H218O lines are potentially better probes of the position of the H2O snowline at the disk midplane, depending on the dust optical depth. The values of the Einstein A coefficients of sub-millimeter candidate water lines tend to be lower (typically <10-4 s-1) than infrared candidate water lines (Notsu et al. 2017). Thus in the sub-millimeter candidate water line cases, the local intensity from the outer optically thin region in the disk is around 104 times smaller than that in the infrared candidate water line cases. Therefore, in the sub-millimeter lines, especially H218O and para-H216O lines with relatively lower upper state energies ( a few 100K) can also locate the position of the H2O snowline. We also investigate the possibility of future observations with ALMA to identify the position of the water snowline. There are several candidate water lines that trace the hot water vapor inside the H2O snowline in ALMA Bands 5-10.
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