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Item FAUST - V. Hot methanol in the [BHB2007] 11 protobinary system; hot corino versus shock origin(EDP Sciences, 2022) Vastel, C.; Alves, F.; Ceccarelli, C.; Bouvier, M.; Jiménez-Serra, I.; Sakai, T.; Caselli, P.; Evans, L.; Fontani, F.; Gal, R. Le; Chandler, C.J.; Svoboda, B.; Maud, L.; Codella, C.; Sakai, N.; Lόpez-Sepulcre, A.; Moellenbrock, G.; Aikawa, Y.; Balucani, N.; Bianchi, E.; Busquet, G.; Caux, E.; Charnley, S.; Cuello, N.; Simone, M. De; Dulieu, F.; Durân, A.; Fedele, D.; Feng, S.; Francis, L.; Hama, T.; Hanawa, T.; Herbst, E.; Hirota, T.; Imai, M.; Isella, A.; Johnstone, D.; Lefloch, B.; Loinard, L.; Maureira, M.; Murillo, N.M.; Mercimek, S.; Mori, S.; Menard, F.; Miotello, A.; Nakatani, R.; Nomura, H.; Oba, Y.; Ohashi, S.; Okoda, Y.; Ospina-Zamudio, J.; Oya, Y.; Pineda, J.E.; Podio, L.; Rimola, A.; Cox, D. Segura; Shirley, Y.; Testi, L.; Viti, S.; Watanabe, N.; Watanabe, Y.; Witzel, A.; Xue, C.; Zhang, Y.; Zhao, B.; Yamamoto, S.Aims.Methanol is a ubiquitous species commonly found in the molecular interstellar medium. It is also a crucial seed species for the build-up of chemical complexity in star forming regions. Thus, understanding how its abundance evolves during the star formation process and whether it enriches the emerging planetary system is of paramount importance.Methods. We used new data from the ALMA Large Program FAUST (Fifty AU STudy of the chemistry in the disc/envelope system of solar protostars) to study the methanol line emission towards the [BHB2007] 11 protobinary system (sources A and B), where a complex structure of filaments connecting the two sources with a larger circumbinary disc has previously been detected.Results. Twelve methanol lines have been detected with upper energies in the [45–537] K range along with one 13CH3OH transition and one methyl formate (CH3OCHO) line blended with one of the methanol transitions. The methanol emission is compact (FWHM ~ 0.5″) and encompasses both protostars, which are separated by only 0.2″ (28 au). In addition, the overall methanol line emission presents three velocity components, which are not spatially resolved by our observations. Nonetheless, a detailed analysis of the spatial origin of these three components suggests that they are associated with three different spatial regions, with two of them close to 11B and the third one associated with 11A. A radiative transfer analysis of the methanol lines gives a kinetic temperature of [100–140] K, an H2 volume density of 106–107 cm−3 and column density of a few 1018 cm−2 in all three components with a source size of ~0.15″. Thus, this hot and dense gas is highly enriched in methanol with an abundance as high as 10−5. Using previous continuum data, we show that dust opacity can potentially completely absorb the methanol line emission from the two binary objects.Conclusions. Although we cannot firmly exclude other possibilities, we suggest that the detected hot methanol is resulting from the shocked gas from the incoming filaments streaming towards [BHB2007] 11A and B, respectively. Higher spatial resolution observations are necessary to confirm this hypothesis.Item High-contrast imaging of HD 163296 with the Keck/NIRC2 L′-band vortex coronograph(Oxford University Press, 2018) Guidi, G.; Ruane, G.; Williams, J.P.; Mawet, D.; Testi, L.; Zurlo, A.; Absil, O.; Bottom, M.; Choquet, E.; Christiaens, V.; Castellá, B. Femenía; Huby, E.; Isella, A.; Kastner, J.; Meshkat, T.; Reggiani, M.; Riggs, A.; Serabyn, E.; Wallack, N.We present observations of the nearby (D∼100 pc) Herbig star HD 163296 taken with the vortex coronograph at Keck/NIRC2 in the L′ band (3.7 μμm) to search for planetary mass companions in the ringed disc surrounding this pre-main-sequence star. The images reveal an arc-like region of scattered light from the disc surface layers that is likely associated with the first bright ring detected with ALMA in the λ = 1.3 mm dust continuum at ∼65 au. We also detect a point-like source at ∼0.5 arcsec projected separation in the north-east direction, close to the inner edge of the second gap in the millimetre images. Comparing the point source photometry with the atmospheric emission models of non-accreting giant planets, we obtain a mass of 6–7 MJ for a putative protoplanet, assuming a system age of 5 Myr. Based on the contrast at a 95 per cent level of completeness calculated on the emission-free regions of our images, we set upper limits for the masses of giant planets of 8–15 MJ, 4.5–6.5 MJ, and 2.5–4.0 MJ at the locations of the first, second, and third gap in the millimetre dust continuum, respectively. Further deep, high-resolution thermal IR imaging of the HD 163296 system are warranted to confirm the presence and nature of the point source and to better understand the structure of the dust disc.Item The Millimeter Continuum Size–Frequency Relationship in the UZ Tau E Disk(IOP, 2018) Tripathi, Anjali; Andrews, Sean M.; Birnstiel, Tilman; Chandler, Claire J.; Isella, Andrea; Pérez, Laura M.; Harris, R.J.; Ricci, Luca; Wilner, David J.; Carpenter, John M.; Calvet, N.; Corder, S.A.; Deller, A.T.; Dullemond, C.P.; Greaves, J.S.; Henning, Th.; Kwon, W.; Lazio, J.; Linz, H.; Testi, L.We present high spatial resolution observations of the continuum emission from the young multiple star system UZ Tau at frequencies from 6 to 340 GHz. To quantify the spatial variation of dust emission in the UZ Tau E circumbinary disk, the observed interferometric visibilities are modeled with a simple parametric prescription for the radial surface brightnesses at each frequency. We find evidence that the spectrum steepens with radius in the disk, manifested as a positive correlation between the observing frequency and the radius that encircles a fixed fraction of the emission (R eff ∝ ν 0.34±0.08). The origins of this size–frequency relation are explored in the context of a theoretical framework for the growth and migration of disk solids. While that framework can reproduce a similar size–frequency relation, it predicts a steeper spectrum than that observed. Moreover, it comes closest to matching the data only on timescales much shorter (≤1 Myr) than the putative UZ Tau age (~2–3 Myr). These discrepancies are direct consequences of the rapid radial drift rates predicted by models of dust evolution in a smooth gas disk. One way to mitigate that efficiency problem is to invoke small-scale gas pressure modulations that locally concentrate drifting solids. If such particle traps reach high-continuum optical depths at 30–340 GHz with a ~30%–60% filling fraction in the inner disk (r lesssim 20 au), they can also explain the observed spatial gradient in the UZ Tau E disk spectrum.