Diverse dust vertical height and settling strength conditions in protoplanetary discs

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract The settling of dust particles plays a critical role in the growth and dynamics of dust grains. We performed a detailed modeling of the ALMA continuum substructures for six highly inclined protoplanetary discs using radiative transfer simulations, to constrain the vertical height of millimetre dust grains and the settling strength. Our modeling results are a very thin millimetre dust disc in T Cha (hdust < 0.1 au throughout the disc), a vertically extended dust disc in DoAr 25 (hdust of ~ 4.7 au at 140 au) and tentatively a thin disc in MY Lup (hdust < 0.5 au at 70 au). From lower resolution observations we found a very thin disc for PDS 111 (hdust < 0.1 au throughout the disc) and a more vertically extended millimetre dust disc in V409 Tau (hdust of ~ 1.3 au at 35 au). We could not measure the vertical height in the asymmetric disc of RY Lup. We also found that the input dust opacities are a source of degeneracy in our models. Our tentative results, assuming the Ricci dust opacities, point to a diverse settling strength in our sample and possible radial variations. We also compared the models that best fit the ALMA data with the SPHERE data to test if they can reproduce the vertical distribution of small dust grains. This comparison suggests that models that reproduce the dust density distribution in the midplane cannot reproduce the distribution of small dust grains in the upper layers, reinforcing the need for more complex models.
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Authors J. Antilen, Paola Pinilla, Dafa Li, M. Villenave, Anibal Sierra, Liu Y, Myriam Benisty, Christian Ginski
Journal monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Year 2026
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10.1093/mnras/stag882
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https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag882
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