ALMA Observations of the Inner Cavity in the Protoplanetary Disk around Sz 84
Jun Hashimoto, Takayuki Muto, Ruobing Dong, Yasuhiro Hasegawa, Nienke, van der Marel, Motohide Tamura, Michihiro Takami, and Munetake Momose

TL;DR
This study uses ALMA observations to analyze the inner cavity structure of the protoplanetary disk around Sz 84, revealing size differences in dust grains and implications for dust growth and fragmentation processes.
Contribution
First detailed ALMA analysis of the inner cavity structure in Sz 84's protoplanetary disk, highlighting dust grain size distribution and growth mechanisms.
Findings
Large dust grains dominate within 60 au of the star.
The cavity size differs for small and large dust grains, at 60 au and 8 au respectively.
Dust grain growth is likely efficient due to weak turbulence or sticky grains.
Abstract
We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of a protoplanetary disk around the T Tauri star Sz~84 and analyses of the structures of the inner cavity in the central region of the dust disk. Sz~84's spectral energy distribution (SED) has been known to exhibit negligible infrared excess at 10~m due to the disk's cavity structure. Analyses of the observed visibilities of dust continuum at 1.3~mm and the SED indicate that the size of the cavity in the disk of large (millimeter size) dust grains is 8~au in radius and that in the disk of small (sub-micron size) dust grains is 60~au in radius. Furthermore, from the SED analyses, we estimate that the upper limit mass of small dust grains at 60~au is less than 10~, which is 0.01~\% of the total (small~~large) dust mass at 60~au. These results…
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