Physical and Chemical Conditions of the Protostellar Envelope and the Protoplanetary Disk in HL Tau

Abstract

We report our SMA observations of the Class 1-2 protostar HL Tau in the 13CO (2--1), C18O (2--1), SO(56--45), and the 1.3 mm dust-continuum emission and our analyses of the ALMA long baseline data of the HCO+ (1--0) emission. The 1.3 mm continuum emission observed with the SMA shows compact (08 × 05) and extended (65 × 43) components, tracing the protoplanetary disk and the protostellar envelope, respectively. The 13CO, C18O, and HCO+ show a compact ( 200 AU) component at velocities higher than 3 km s-1 from the systemic velocity and an extended ( 1000 AU) component at the lower velocities. The high-velocity component traces the Keplerian rotating disk, and the low-velocity component traces the infalling envelope. The HCO+ high-velocity component is fitted with a Keplerian disk model with a central stellar mass of 1.4 M. The radial intensity profiles of the 13CO and C18O along the disk major axis are fitted with a disk+envelope model, and the gas masses of the disk and envelope are estimated to be 2--40×10-4 M and 2.9×10-3 M, respectively. The disk dust mass has been estimated to be 1--3 × 10-3 M in the literature. Thus, our estimated disk gas mass suggests that the gas-to-dust mass ratio in the disk is <10, a factor of ten lower than the estimated ratio in the envelope. We discuss the possible gas depletion or CO depletion in the planet-forming candidate HL Tau in the context of disk and envelope evolution.

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