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Resolved observations of transition disks

Simon Casassus1∗1Departamento de Astronomıa, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile

AbstractResolved observations are bringing new constraints on the origin of radial gaps in protoplanetary disks.The kinematics, sampled in detail in one case-study, are indicative of non-Keplerian flows, corresponding towarped structures and accretion which may both play a role in the development of cavities. Disk asymmetriesseen in the radio continuum are being interpreted in the context of dust segregation via aerodynamictrapping. We summarise recent observational progress, and also describe prospects for improvements in thenear term.

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1 INTRODUCTION

Circumstellar disks evolution is an aspect of stellar for-mation (Shu et al. 1987; Zuckerman 2001; Williams &Cieza 2011; Dunham et al. 2015). In Class II young-stellar-objects, the dissipation of the protostellar enve-lope exposes a pre-main-sequence star surrounded by agaseous accretion disk. In this framework the spectral-energy-distributions (SEDs) provide constraints on ra-dial disk structure. Central cavities (and gaps) are in-ferred in so-called transition disks (and pre-transitionaldisks, Espaillat et al. 2007, TDs hereafter), whose struc-ture is being refined with resolved observations.

This review provides a selection of structures seen inTDs, with an emphasis on the radio domain. Insightson the origin of the cavities based on TD demographicsare summarised in the accompanying review by Owen(2015). We caution that resolved observations of TDsare affected by many biases, as they target the bright-est sources with the largest cavities, so that they cannotbe extrapolated to reflect the whole population (whichis for now studied by complete photometric surveys, e.g.Cieza et al. 2012, 2015). Instead, such resolved obser-vations inform on the range of possible astrophysicalphenomena at work in disks.

The observational identification of abrupt disk incli-nation changes (Section 2) provides the information ondisk orientation required to interpret the dynamics ofresidual gas inside TD cavities (Sec. 3). The outer ringssurrounding the central cavities of most TDs resolved sofar in the sub mm continuum show non-axial symmetry,with intensity contrasts from a few to ∼100 (Sec. 4).

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Complex spiral patterns are seen in the outer disks,which are also beginning to be resolved in molecularlines (Sec. 5). The exciting observation of giant proto-planet candidates opens an enormous research poten-tial, since their formation is expected to carve a radialgap, but their detection in TDs is still far from sys-tematic (Sec. 6). The inferred warped accretion flows,the dramatic non-axial symmetry of some outer disks,and the observed spiral patterns, motivate questions ontheir origins, their connection to embedded protoplan-ets, and on their role in disk evolution (Sec. 7).

2 WARPS

Warps, or variable inclination or orientation as a func-tion of stellocentric distance, have long been suspectedto occur in circumstellar disks. In this Section we com-pile evidence for warps in young circumstellar disks in abroader context, with special attention to TDs and thecase of HD 142527.

2.1 Debris disks

Warps are seen in debris disks, or Class III young stel-lar objects that have dissipated the left-over primor-dial gas. This is the case of the edge-on warp seen inβ Pic (Golimowski et al. 2006; Millar-Blanchaer et al.2015). Another example is AU Mic (Wang et al. 2015;Boccaletti et al. 2015), and perhaps also HD 110058(Kasper et al. 2015). The identification of warps in de-bris disks requires an edge-on view, and the lack ofgaseous counterparts hampers reaching definitive con-

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clusions on their structure, and so distinguish continu-ous warps from superimposed disks.

2.2 Indications of warps in gas-rich disks

Inner warps, or a tilted inclination at the disk center,could lead to the photometric variations seen in somehigh-inclination (so close to edge-on) Class II classicalT-Tauri stars1, such as in RY Lup (Manset et al. 2009),TWA 30, (Looper et al. 2010) and AA Tau (Bouvieret al. 2013). The light curve variability of AA Tau iswell accounted for by a magnetically induced warp onscales of a few stellar radii or .0.1 AU (Esau et al.2014), and part of the occulting structure could extendbeyond 1 AU (Schneider et al. 2015). In the NGC 2264open cluster up to ∼40% of young and gas-rich cTTswith thick inner disks present AA Tau-like variability(Alencar et al. 2010), suggesting that such inner warpsrepresent a fairly common phase in the early evolu-tion of circumstellar disks (McGinnis et al. 2015). Lightcurve variability on weeks and months timescales, dueto obscuring material, has also been reported in the TDsT Cha (Schisano et al. 2009) and GM Aur (Ingleby et al.2015).

In TDs warps have also been hinted at in the formof significant inclination changes in observations withdifferent angular resolutions. For example in GM Aur,with a stellar mass .1 M, Hughes et al. (2009) pro-pose a central warp to explain the small change in diskposition angle2 of 11 ± 2 deg when comparing the ma-jor axis of the sub mm continuum sampled at 0.3 arcsec,with that of the CO(3-2) kinematics3 sampled at 2 arc-sec. Likewise, Tang et al. (2012) explain that in AB Aur(∼2 M), the inclination inferred from near-IR interfer-ometry (i ∼ 20 deg within the central AU Eisner et al.2004) is close to that sampled over 20 AU scales, andlower than sampled in coarser beams (i ∼ 36 deg out-side 70 AU Pietu et al. 2005). Hashimoto et al. (2011)also conclude, from polarised-differential-imaging (PDI)in the near-IR, that the inner regions of AB Aur arewarped, given the varying inclinations in a double ringstructure, dropping from ∼ 43 deg to ∼ 27 deg over 90to 200 AU in radius. Tang et al. (2012) relate the warpedstructure inferred from their molecular line data with aresidual infalling envelope.

Yet another example of such inclination changes withangular scale is seen in MWC 758 (∼2M), where near-IR interferometry (with VLTI+AMBER, Isella et al.2008) yields an inclination of 30-40 deg in the cen-tral AU, while SMA observations in CO(3-2), with a0.7 arcsec beam spanning over 100 AU, yield an in-clination of ∼21 deg (Isella et al. 2010). Similarly, in

1i.e. .1 M stars undergoing accretion2the intersection of the plane of the disk with that of the sky3assuming Keplerian rotation

HD 135344B (also ∼ 2M), the VLTI+MIDI inclina-tion is ∼60 deg (Fedele et al. 2008), while CO(3-2) datasuggests 11 deg (Dent et al. 2005), and IR direct imag-ing restricts < 20 deg (HST+NICMOS Grady et al.2009).

From an observational point of view, there is a de-generacy in the line-of-sight kinematics due to variableinclination, as in a warp, and the non-Keplerian flowsexpected from infalling gas, as identified in TW Hya andHD 142527 by Rosenfeld et al. (2012, 2014). In TW Hya,excess CO emission at high velocities, additional to thatexpected from axially symmetric disk models, could bedue to a warp, that may also account for the faint az-imuthal modulation in scattered light imaging reportedby (Roberge et al. 2005). In HD 142527, the infallinggas reported by Casassus et al. (2013b,a) could insteadbe due to a warp.

2.3 The HD 142527 warp

The unambiguous identification of warps requires fur-ther evidence, in addition to the possible inclinationtrends with angular scales (which could be related toa variety of physical structures other than warps) andthe hints provided by the molecular line data. Radiativetransfers effects due to warps can provide such evidence.For instance in HD 100546, Quillen (2006) recognisedhow a warped structure could approximate the spiralpattern seen by HST (Grady et al. 2001), thereby il-lustrating the potential of radiative transfer effects toaccount for non-axially symmetric structures. Indeed,Whitney et al. (2013) apply three-dimensional radia-tive transfer to warped disk architectures, as shown inFig. 1, showing that shadows are expected in the outerdisks.

HD 142527 is an example of how such radiative trans-fer effects in scattered light can unambiguously deter-mine the disk orientation and the existence of variableinclinations. In this case the relative inclination changebetween the outer and inner disks reaches ∼ 70 ± 5 deg,as shown by Marino et al. (2015a). Despite such a dra-matic inclination change, the intensity dips originallyidentified by Casassus et al. (2012) eluded interpreta-tion for 3 years, because the direction connecting thedips is offset from the star, in contrast with that naivelyexpected for a simple tilt. Yet, as illustrated in Fig. 2,the silhouette of the shadows cast by the inner warpprovide unequivocal evidence for this warp, which isfurther supported by the gas kinematics discussed inSec. 3.

2.4 Near-term prospects: how common arewarps?

Although there are indications for the frequent oc-currence of inclination changes in gas-rich systems,

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inner PA

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Figure 2. Comparison between the observed H-band polarised intensity image of HD 142527 (a- from Avenhaus et al. 2014a) and 3D

radiative transfer predictions (b- from Marino et al. 2015a, this is an updated version of their Fig. 2). The kinematics of C18O(2-1)

emission (Perez et al. 2015a) give the orientation of the outer disk; the white contours in a- correspond to systemic velocities, so thatthe PA of the outer disk lies at ∼ 160 deg East of North, as indicated on b-. The inner disk shadows cast on the outer disk are best

reproduced with a PA of 172 deg, the curvature of their outline (or silhouette) is reminiscent of the observations for the Eastern side.

The similarities with the observations are particularly good given the idealisations of the model, which assumes a circular cavity.

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 207:30 (20pp), 2013 August Whitney et al.

Figure 26. Near-infrared three-color (JHK) images of the Class II model in which the inner 1 AU of the disk is misaligned at 30 with respect to the rest of the disk.These are viewed at an inclination of 60 and at six azimuthal angles: 0, 60, 120, 180, 240, and 300. The images are zoomed into a radius of 2 AU. At thisinclination, the central source is blocked from view at several azimuthal angles. This is seen in the light curves of the rotating disk in Figure 27.(A color version of this figure is available in the online journal.)

Figure 27. Same as Figure 21 for the misaligned inner disk. The light curves and polarization jump as the disk rotates into directions that occult the inner star and diskregions.(A color version of this figure is available in the online journal.)

given by

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Note that this formulation is equivalent to the more familiarsolution along z (dP/dz = −ρgz, where gz is the verticalcomponent of gravity (= GM⋆z/ϖ

3)).Substituting for ρ and reformulating into a difference equa-

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With density specified in the midplane at a given radius r, allthe densities along the polar θ coordinate can be computedfrom Equation (19). Next we have to normalize this densityprofile along θ . We do this by requiring the integral along θto equal that calculated in the initial grid setup using the inputparameters for the power-law disk structure in Equation (14).This integral as a function of r is nearly identical to the surfacedensity (Equation (15)), so in effect we are normalizing thedensity so that the surface density remains constant after eachiteration.

We have found that the temperature and density convergewithin about eight iterations for typical T Tauri disk parameters.A noisy temperature solution can lead to noise spikes in the

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Figure 1. Figure adapted from Whitney et al. (2013, c©AAS,

reproduced with permission), with a 3D radiative transfer predic-

tion in JHK for a warped disk configuration. The field is 4 AUon a side.

there is so far only one clear case of a warp, i.e. inHD 142527. Next-generation adaptive-optics cameras,such as SPHERE and GPI, should soon provide sub-stantial improvements, particularly through polarised-differential-imaging which appears ideally suited totrace illumination effects, and so identify warps. Firstresults from such new AO imaging are indeed reveal-ing intriguing intensity modulations, as in MWC 758(Benisty et al. 2015), HD 135344B (Wahhaj et al. 2015)and in HD 100453 (Wagner et al. 2015). Followup

molecular-line observations with ALMA may providethe necessary clues from the gas kinematics.

3 GAS IN CAVITIES

Models predict that young giant protoplanets carve adeep gap in the dust component of protoplanetary disks,and a shallower gap in the gas and very small grains(VSGs) components (e.g. Paardekooper & Mellema2006; Fouchet et al. 2010). The clearing of the proto-planetary gap is thought of as an important mechanismunderlying the class of TDs, and residual gas in cavitieshas thus been intensely searched for.

3.1 Ro-vibrational gas and very small grains

Long-slit spectroscopy has provided indirect evidencefor gas inside cavities, under the assumption of az-imuthal symmetry and Keplerian rotation (Carr et al.2001; Najita et al. 2003; Acke & van den Ancker 2006;van der Plas et al. 2008; Salyk et al. 2009). Spectro-astrometry has also been used to infer a residual gasmass from ro-vibrational CO emission (Pontoppidanet al. 2008; van der Plas et al. 2009; Pontoppidan et al.2011). A comprehensive analysis is presented in van derPlas et al. (2015) and Banzatti & Pontoppidan (2015).The general picture is that dust cavities do indeed con-tain some amount of residual gas, as expected in thecontext of dynamical clearing.

The smallest grains are thought to be well coupledwith the gas, so that they can be used as proxies. Ther-

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Figure 3. Summary of Cycle 0 band 7 observations, from MEM

maps, with continuum in red, HCO+(4-3) in green, and CO(3-2)in blue (adapted from Casassus et al. 2013b). x− and y− show

offset from the star, in arcsec. Velocities have been restricted tohighlight the fainter structures seen in HCO+, which are other-

wise dwarfed by the fast HCO+ central emission.

mal IR observations suggest the existence of smallergaps in VSGs than in silicates, and have also led tothe finding of gaps otherwise undetectable through theSED alone (Maaskant et al. 2013; Honda et al. 2015).Detailed studies of the gap structure in ro-vibrationallines along with infrared data have been performed inHD 135344B (Garufi et al. 2013; Carmona et al. 2014).

3.2 Resolved radio observations ofintra-cavity gas

While the ro-vibrational detections pointed at residualintra-cavity gas, surprises were nonetheless brought bythe first resolved images (Fig. 3, Casassus et al. 2013b),made possible thanks to the advent of ALMA. Thefinest angular resolutions from ALMA Cycle 0 werejust sufficient to resolve the largest TD cavity, i.e. thatof the HD 142527 disk. A few Mjup worth of gas wasindeed seen inside this cavity from CO isotopologues(Perez et al. 2015a). However, the gas kinematics werepuzzling, and seemed consistent with radial infall asillustrated by the fast and centrally peaked HCO+(4-3). Slower intra-cavity HCO+ signal seemed to connectwith the outer disk along filamentary structures, rem-iniscent of protoplanetary accretion streams. But theslow intra-cavity HCO+ was faint in these Cycle 0 data,and the cavity radius was sampled only with 3 beams.New observations in HCO+(4-3) are required to ascer-tain its structure.

A more accurate view of the intra-cavity kinematicsin HD 142527 is provided by the CO(6-5) line, with

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Figure 8. Comparison of observed and model CO(6-5) kinematics in the central regions of HD 142527. The origin of coordinates is set tothe stellar position. Velocity-integrated intensity in CO(6-5) is shown in grey scale. The colored contours for vlsr have constant interval andare spread over [0.21, 7.87] km s1 (as in Fig. 1). a): Observed moment maps extracted on the MEM datacubes. b): moments extracted onthe radiative transfer prediction, after smoothing to the resolution of the MEM datacubes. c): same as b) but in native model resolutions,without smoothing. Regions without contours and near the origin correspond to higher velocities. d): same as b) but with a slow velocitycomponent perpendicular to the disk plane (vwarp in the text).

Figure 9. Radiative transfer prediction for the parametric diskmodel, if it were viewed at an inclination of 66 deg, and withoutcontinuum subtraction. a: Moment 0 map, essentially tracing thecontinuum emission, and shown on a larger field to better conveythe close to edge-on viewing angle. b): centroid of the velocity fieldextracted on the radiative transfer prediction, after smoothing tothe resolution of the MEM datacubes. The colored contours forvlsr have constant interval and are spread over [0.21, 7.87] km s1

(as in Fig. 1). c): same as b) but in native model resolutions,without smoothing. Regions without contours and near the origincorrespond to higher velocities.

and the true breaking radius in a series of SPH simu-lations, by a factor of 2–3. Estimates of a 15 AUare therefore entirely consistent with a breaking radiusof 30 AU, as demanded by our model. However, as thisis likely very sensitive to the parameters of the system amore quantitative comparison of this scenario with theobserved data is out of the scope of this paper, requiringthe development of targeted numerical simulations.

We also note that while this scenario seems to ade-quately explain both the inner warp and the free-fallingvelocities, it does not explain the presence of the 130 AU cavity in the system. This should not be sur-prising, given the large di↵erence in scale between thewarp and the cavity (and therefore di↵erent timescalesassociated with physical processes at these radii), butmeans that the model is not yet a complete descriptionof the system.

4.4. Long term Kozai oscilations and the large cavity

The dynamical influence of the low-mass companion onits current orbit will not extend out to the 100 AU scaleneeded to explain the large extent of the cavity. It ispossible, however, that its orbit may have changed overtime. The highly inclined orbit of the companion relativeto that of the massive outer disk could trigger Kozai os-cillations (Teyssandier et al. 2013), with a period of the

order of 105 yr if the outer disk has a mass of 0.1 M.A Kozai cycle would result in (damped) oscillations be-tween the current inclined circular orbit, and a highlyeccentric coplanar orbit which would perturb the diskout to greater radii. Numerical simulations are neededto determine if such a cycle is possible in HD 142527.

4.5. Non-axial symmetry in the cavity. Signature ofobscured planets?

Observationally we cannot test directly for past copla-nar eccentric orbits, as in the Kozai oscilations, but wecan instead look for other mechanisms that could accountfor the clearing, such as additional bodies at 100 AU.Stringent limits are available (Casassus et al. 2013c),4 Mjup bodies should have been detected unless theyare obscured.

An interesting feature of the Cycle 0 HCO+(4-3) datais the faint filament crossing the cavity to the East, atlow velocites, with perhaps another filament to the West(see Fig. 10 for a summary, Casassus et al. 2013c). It istempting to associate these HCO+ features with planet-induced accretion flows, i.e. gaseous streamers due to ob-scured protoplanets inside the cavity, that feed the fasterflows at the disk breaking radius. As the critical densityfor the excitation of HCO+(4-3) is nH2 106 cm3, andhigher than the CO(3-2) critical density of 103 cm3,in the streamer interpretation the HCO+ filaments andhigh-velocity flows would trace the densest regions of thegeneral accretion flow across the gap, which is also re-flected in the ‘twisted’ CO kinematics. If the free-fallingaccretion is initially fed by planet accretion at 100AU,there should be corresponding azimuthal modulations ofthe H2 density field. Perhaps this is reflected in the struc-ture of the faint, low-velocity HCO+(4-3) inside the cav-ity.

An alternative to azimuthal modulations of the H2 den-sity field in the cavity, is that only the abundance ofHCO+ is modulated. The tilted inner disk is shadow-ing the UV radiation required to produce HCO+ in thecavity, resulting in HCO+ filaments with wide openingangles, as opposed to the thin protoplanetary stream-ers predicted in hydrodynamic simulations. A problemwith this interpretation is that the outer ring is fairlyround in HCO+, there are no obvious counterparts inHCO+ of the scattered-light shadows. Perhaps this re-

Figure 4. Figure adapted from Casassus et al. (2015a, part of

their Fig. 26, c©AAS, reproduced with permission) , showing theobserved CO(6-5) kinematics in the central regions of HD 142527,

and comparing with model predictions for the accretion throughthe warp represented in Fig. 5 (convolved at the resolution of

the centroid map). The origin of coordinates is set to the stellar

position.

a higher frequency and a finer Cycle 0 beam. CO(6-5) is also free of the interstellar absorption that affectsCO(3-2) (Casassus et al. 2013c,a). Given the warpedstructure of HD 142527, the line-of-sight CO(6-5) canbe understood as infall, at the observed stellar accretionrate (Garcia Lopez et al. 2006), but along and throughthe warp. As illustrated in Figs. 4 and Fig. 5, the ob-servations are fairly well accounted for by a model withgas inside the continuous warp. At the radius where thedisk plane crosses the sky, the kinematics are Doppler-flipped so that blue turns to red, and convolution withthe angular resolution results in the “S”-shaped cen-troids. Interestingly, a fast and narrow warp improvesthe model, such that the two disk orientations are con-nected within ∼3 AU, at a radius of 20 AU, with mate-rial flowing orthogonal to the local disk plane at a ve-locity comparable to Keplerian. These observations arebased on non-parametric image synthesis that pushesthe limits of the Cycle 0 beam, so that further observa-tions are required to ascertain the details of the gaseousflows inside the warp.

A likely origin for the observed accretion dynamics inHD 142527 probably involves the low-mass companion,at ∼12 AU and with a mass ratio . 1/10 (Biller et al.2012; Close et al. 2014; Rodigas et al. 2014). The proper-motion of the companion (Lacour et al. 2015) seems toindicate an orbit in clockwise rotation, as for the wholedisk. If HD 142527B is contained in the tilted inner disk,or if it is close to it, the properties of the warp causedby the HD142527A+B system resemble disk tearing instrongly warped circumbinary disks (Nixon et al. 2013;Nealon et al. 2015; Dogan et al. 2015). In the contextof circumstellar disks, Facchini et al. (2013, 2014) showthat in the thick-disk regime, where α < H/R, a in-ner warp greater than ∼40 deg will break the disk intodistinct planes. Note, however, that the low mass com-panion at ∼12 AU is unlikely to have originated the

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Figure 5. Sketch of the accretion kinematics through the warpin HD 142527 (from Casassus et al. 2015a). The crescent in hues

of red and purple represents the distribution of mm-sized grains.

Inside the warp, as it connects the two disk inclination materialflows along the dashed and curved arrows.

140 AU cavity, unless it is undergoing oscillations in in-clination and eccentricity (i.e. Kozai cycles, see Martinet al. 2014). Further progress in the interpretation ofthe HD 142527 warp requires better data and tailoredhydrodynamical models.

3.3 Residual gas in cavities

A summary of several other detections with ALMA ofresidual gas in TD cavities is given by van Dishoecket al. (2015). Bright CO(6-5) emission was found as-cribed to the cavities of HD 135344B and SR21 (Perezet al. 2014), as well as in LkCa 15, RXJ 1615-3255, andSR 24S (van der Marel et al. 2015a). The size of the ringin [PZ99]J160421.7-213028 is smaller in CO(2-1) thanin the dust continuum (Zhang et al. 2014), much as inSZ 91(Canovas et al. 2015). The depth of the cavity inmm-sized grains follows from the sub mm continuum.Results so far are limited by dynamic range, with depthsin the mm-sized dust deeper than ∼1/100 relative to theouter disk.

The recent state of the art 345 GHz continuum andCO(3-2) isotopologue data analysed by van der Marelet al. (2016) in terms of a thermochemical model, sug-gests that the gas cavities are up to 3 times smallerthan the dust rings in DoAr 44, SR 21, HD 135344Band IRS 48 (see also Bruderer et al. 2014). The dropin gas surface density can be up to δ ∼ 10−2 (the exactvalues vary in each object and can be calculated fromthe parameters given in Table 3 of van der Marel et al.2016).

The main result that transpires from the above stud-ies, including HD 142527 (Perez et al. 2015a), is thatthe depth of the cavity is shallower in the gas than inthe dust, by at least a factor of 10. However, while van

der Marel et al. (2016) investigate gradual cavity edges,angular resolution limits prevent firm conclusions onthe distribution of the gas. Most studies assume axiallysymmetric and sharp cavity edges, parametrised by astep-function drop, with a depth δ ∼ 1/10 − 1/100 rel-ative to the outer disk in the gaseous component. Dueto the coarse linear resolutions available, the accretionkinematics remain largely unsampled. For instance, inHD 142527 sufficient linear resolution is crucial to tracethe non-Keplerian accretion flows, which are otherwisemuch less conspicuous when sampled with a beamwidthcomparable to the cavity radius (Perez et al. 2015a).

3.4 Near-term prospects: structure andorigin of the cavities

The finest angular resolutions available from the latestALMA results (van der Marel et al. 2016) do no yetprovide enough linear resolution to sample the cavityedges. However, at the time of writing several ALMAprojects are currently underway in gas-rich cavities, andthe first results from the next-generation AO camerasare soon due. With much finer angular resolutions, itwill be possible to understand better the distributionof the gas in TDs and its kinematics, and so reconcilemass transport across TD cavities with the stellar ac-cretion rates (which has so far only been possible inHD 142527).

A key question is on the shape of the cavity edge,which is currently modelled as a step function. Yet theedge of the cavity gives important clue on the clear-ing mechanism: for instance, if planet formation, thesharpness of the edge is a function of the mass of theoutermost body (e.g. Crida et al. 2006; Mulders et al.2013).

Intriguingly very few companions have been found inTDs (and only one candidate near the edge of a cavity,i.e. in the HD 169142 disk, see Sec. 6). A spectacu-lar example is HD 142527, with a record-sized cavityof 140 AU and no intra-cavity protoplanet detected asyet. The binary separation in HD 142527 is ∼10 AU (seeSec. 3.2) and could only account for a ∼30 AU gas-freecavity (Artymowicz & Lubow 1994). A interesting com-parison object is the GG Tau circumbinary ring, whichby contrast to HD 142527 may be explained in termsof dynamical interactions with the binary provided theedge of the cavity is ‘soft’ in the gas (Andrews et al.2014; Dutrey et al. 2014).

Despite the lack of detections in TD cavities, thedata in HD 142527 suggest that low-mass companionscan drive dramatic warps. Thus a possible solution tothe puzzle of large cavities could perhaps be found inviewing them as circumbinary disks with low mass com-panions undergoing Kozai oscilations. so that when thesystem is coplanar the binary is very eccentric (as sug-gested in Casassus et al. 2015a, pending tests with hy-

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drodynamic simulations). Thus in HD 142527 we couldbe witnessing a high-inclination phase at relatively closebinary separation. Definitive conclusions on the struc-ture of this warp require finer angular resolutions anddeeper sensitivities, along with new observations in theHCO+ lines. Here we are presented with another puzzleto reconcile models of disk tearing with the indicationsthat even though the warp appears to be abrupt, gascontinuously flows through it and connects the two diskinclinations.

Is there a binary lurking in all of the large TD cav-ities, as in HD 142527? Low mass companions intothe brown-dwarf mass regime are difficult to detect atvery close separations. The new AO cameras along withALMA gas kinematics should soon cast light on thesequestions, starting with the recent detection of fairlyhigh-mass bodies in LkCa 15 (Sallum et al. 2015, seeSec. 6).

4 LOPSIDED DISKS

Early resolved observations of TDs already suggestedthat the outer rings deviate from axial symmetry (ingeneral from SMA data, Ohashi 2008; Brown et al. 2009;Andrews et al. 2011). ALMA has brought confirmationand revealed the dramatic contrast4 of the most extremeasymmetries seen in the dust continuum. To what ex-tent do these asymmetries trace matched asymmetriesin the gas? What is the efficiency of dust segregationfrom the gas?

4.1 The most dramatic asymmetries

4.1.1 HD 142527

The sub mm continuum from HD 142527 is approxi-mately shaped into a crescent (Ohashi 2008; Casassuset al. 2013b; Fukagawa et al. 2013) and modulated by atemperature decrement under the shadow of the innerwarp (Sec. 2.3). It is still not entirely clear to what ex-tend is the sub mm continuum reflecting a similarly pro-nounced asymmetry in the gas. Existing observationsrely on optically thick tracers of the total gas mass (in-cluding small dust grains), so cannot conclude on theunderlying gas distribution. The dense-gas tracers dis-cussed by van der Plas et al. (2014, HCN(4-3) and CS(7-6)) are affected by chemistry and seem to anti-correlatewith the continuum.

Recently the Cycle 0 data in the optically thin COisotopologues were further analysed by Muto et al.(2015), who estimate that the contrast in the gas-phaseCO column is about a factor of 3. While this is all theexisting information available on the gas contrast, atthe time of writing, its extrapolation to the total gasmass is hampered by uncertainties from grain surface

4the ratio of the intensity extrema along a ring

chemistry: The azimuthal structure in these transitionsis not a smooth crescent; their emission peaks differfrom the continuum. Perhaps the gas-phase CO abun-dance is significantly modulated in azimuth by chem-istry, or a fraction of CO could be depleted on dustgrains, especially at the location of the continuum peak(at about 11h), where continuum grey-body tempera-tures are ∼22 K (Fig. 6, Casassus et al. 2015b), so belowfreeze-out (Jørgensen et al. 2015).

The hydrodynamic simulations tend to predict con-trast ratios of order ∼3. Large-scale crescents in thegas surface density arise naturally in models of cavityclearing by giant planets (e.g. Zhu & Stone 2014). Suchcrescents are reproduced in hydrodynamical simulationsby large-scale anti-cyclonic vortices, which result fromRossby wave instabilities triggered at sharp radial gra-dients in physical conditions. For instance, they havealso been modeled in the context of viscosity gradi-ents (Regaly et al. 2012). An apparently different modelfor such crescents, leading to more pronounced asym-metries in the gas, was proposed by Mittal & Chiang(2015) based on a global disk mode in response to a stel-lar offset. However, as argued by Zhu & Baruteau (2015)if such offsets result from the shift of the system centreof mass in sufficiently massive disk, the consistent in-corporation of disk self-gravity dampens the contrast ofan otherwise standard large-scale anticyclonic vortex.Thus in general the gas surface density contrasts arepredicted to reach moderate values, typically ∼3 andperhaps up to 10.

The azimuthal intensity contrast in HD 142527reaches about 30, yet there is no hint so far of a simi-lar contrast ratio either in the small grains ( 0.1 mm),nor in molecular lines, which led Casassus et al. (2013b)to suggest that the mm-sized dust grains that originatethe ALMA continuum were segregated from the gas. Inother words the dust-to-gas mass ratio could vary withazimuth. A promising mechanism to explain such seg-regation is the pile-up of larger grains in local pressuremaxima (e.g. Weidenschilling 1977; Barge & Sommeria1995; Birnstiel et al. 2013; Lyra & Lin 2013), as pro-posed to account for the even more dramatic sub mmcontinuum contrast seen in IRS 48 (see below, van derMarel et al. 2013).

An important prediction of dust trapping is thatprogressively larger grains5 should be more sharplyconfined. Multi-frequency radio observations may testthis prediction, since grains of progressively larger sizedominate the continuum emission at correspondinglylonger wavelengths. Indeed, 34 GHz ATCA observa-tions of HD 142527 revealed a compact clump of cm-wavelength-emitting grains buried into the ALMA cres-cent (Fig. 6, Casassus et al. 2015b). Populations oflarger grains correspond to shallower optical depth spec-

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tral index β (e.g. Testi et al. 2014), in a parametri-sation of the optical depth spectrum such that τ =τ × (ν/ν)βs (β is also referred to as emissivity index).Thus three frequency points can be used to solve for theradiation temperature, optical depth, and β index ateach line of sight. Frequencies above ∼345 GHz turnedout to be optically thick (Fig. 6, Casassus et al. 2015b),so that the spectral index trends at ALMA frequenciesare due to optical depth effects rather than the underly-ing dust population. The ATCA clump translates intoa local minimum in the β index, indicative of largergrains.

Interestingly the optical depth at 345 GHz (Fig. 6a,bottom), shows an extension towards 2h. Yet the min-imum in opacity spectral index β lies at 11h, whichshould be the core of the pressure maximum in the dusttrap scenario. Since rotation in HD 142527 goes clock-wise, a possible interpretation lies in the phenomenonpredicted by Baruteau & Zhu (2015), that larger grainsshould concentrate significantly ahead of the dust trap.Thus at 2h the line of sight would intercept a disk-averaged grain population, modulated by the gaseouscrescent, but the addition of larger grains (perhaps upto 1 cm sizes in this disk), might raise the total opticaldepth even away from the pressure maximum. However,such a shift of the larger grains is possible only withStokes numbers S & 1 (Baruteau & Zhu 2015), whichfor 1 cm grains would require a disk mass ∼100 timeslower than inferred from the SED modeling (Casassuset al. 2015b), and/or a correspondingly low gas-to-dustmass ratio.

Thus the bulk of the data so far indicates that thespatial segregation of dust sizes in azimuth is indeed atwork in the lopsided outer ring of HD 142527. However,while models have been proposed that approximatethe observed segregation (through parametric models,Casassus et al. 2015b), they are fine-tuned in key pa-rameters such as the α turbulence prescription and thethreshold grain size for trapping.

4.1.2 IRS 48

The record-holder lopsided TD is IRS 48, where van derMarel et al. (2013) found that the contrast in ALMAband 9 is greater than 100, so three times as pronouncedas in HD 142527. They reproduce such dramatic con-trast with their dust trapping prescriptions.

Observations of IRS 48 are hampered by interveningcloud emission from ρ Oph, with AV ∼ 10. Yet by usingthe rarer CO isotopologues at higher velocities, Brud-erer et al. (2014) estimated that the total gas mass ofthe disk is only ∼ 10−4 M.

The dramatic contrast observed in IRS 48 would seemvery unlikely to correspond to an equally lopsided gasdistribution, and is thus probably due to segregation ofgrain sizes. Indeed, van der Marel et al. (2015b) reporton the tentative detection of the corresponding spectral

distributions of dust emission at 450 μm and 0.9 cm arecompared and we aim to provide confirmation of the dust trapscenario in a transitional disk. Section 2 describes theobservation setup and calibration process, Section 3 presentsthe images and the derived intensity profile and Section 4discusses the interpretation of the different morphologies andpossible implications for the dust trapping scenario.

2. OBSERVATIONS

Observations of Oph IRS 48 at 34 GHz (9 mm) wereobtained using the VLA in the CnB and B configurations in2015 January–February as part of program 14B-115, withbaselines ranging from 75 to 8700 m. The spectral windowswere configured for a maximum possible continuum bandwidthof 8 GHz centered at 34 GHz (Ka band) in dual polarization,using 64 spectral windows of 128MHz each, with 3-bitsampling. Due to the low declination, the source was observedin three scheduling blocks of 2.75 hr with 1.25 hr on source ineach block. The bandpass was calibrated using J1517–2422 (inthe third block J1924–2914 was used instead), the absolute fluxwas calibrated using 3C286 and J1625–2527 was used as again calibrator, periodically observed every three minutes. Thepointing was checked on the gain calibrator in X-band every30 minutes. The calibrated data were concatenated and imagedusing Briggs weighting with a robust parameter of 0.5.Deconvolution using CASA imfit reveals that the source ismarginally resolved. The flux calibration uncertainty is 10%.

Observations at 680 GHz (440 μm) were obtained usingALMA in Cycle 2 in 2014 July in the C34-3 configuration withBand 9 (Baryshev et al. 2015) as part of program2013.1.00100.S. The observations were taken in four spectralwindows of 1920 channels: three windows have a bandwidth of937.5 MHz, centered on 661, 659, and 675 GHz, the fourthspectral window was centered on 672 GHz with a bandwidth of1875MHz. The total continuum bandwidth was ∼4.7 GHz.The flux was calibrated using J1517–243, the bandpass with

J1427–4206 and the phase with J1626–2951. The total on-source integration time was 52 minutes. The data were self-calibrated and imaged using Briggs weighting with a robustparameter of 0.5. The flux calibration uncertainty is 20%.Table 1 lists the properties of the images. The astrometric

accuracy is set by the calibrators, and is typically 30[ mas forthese two data sets, which is much smaller than the beam size.

3. RESULTS

Figure 1 shows images of the dust continuum emission at680 and 34 GHz. The 680 GHz continuum has a similarasymmetry as observed in van der Marel et al. (2013) in theBand 9 Cycle 0 data, though these new data have improvedangular resolution. The 34 GHz continuum emission peaks atthe same location, but is much more azimuthally concentrated.This is not a sensitivity effect: when the 680 GHz data arerestored with the same cleaning beam as the 34 GHz data, itsazimuthal extent is still clearly wider than in the measured34 GHz data (see Figure 1(d)). The radial width cannot becompared due to the vertically elongated VLA beam shape,which is caused by the low declination of the source withrespect to the VLA site, but given the disk geometry, thiselongation does not affect constraints on the azimuthal width,the key parameter of interest here. Spatial filtering can be ruledout as an explanation for the different azimuthal extents; thesedata recover all of the flux found on the shortest baselines fromprevious VLA observations in the DnC configuration (beamsize 3″. 3 × 1″. 3, flux = 252 11o μJy). Also, we have simulatedthe ALMA image as if observed by the VLA by sampling theALMA image on the VLA visibilities (Figure 1(e)) to rule outhorizontal spatial filtering. Besides, the largest angular scalesrecovered by the CnB observation is 5″, which is much largerthan the disk. Thus, the centimeter-sized dust grains (traced bythe 34 GHz continuum) have a narrower azimuthal distributionthan the millimeter-sized dust grains (traced by the 690 GHz

Table 1Image Properties

Telescope Frequency Bandwidth Beam Size Beam PA Flux Peak rms(GHz) (GHz) (mJy) (mJy beam−1) (mJy beam−1)

ALMA 680 4.7 0″. 19 × 0″. 15 79° 1000 190 0.6VLA 34 8.0 0″. 46 × 0″. 26 21° 251 × 10−3 138 × 10−3 3.5 × 10−3

Figure 1. ALMA and VLA observations of dust emission at 680 and 34 GHz of the Oph IRS 48 disk. (a) The 680 GHz image (color scale); (b) the 34 GHz (colorscale); (c) the overlay of the 34 GHz contours in red (taken at 3, 6,K, 39σ, σ = 3.5 μJy) on the 680 GHz contours in black (taken at 3, 12, 24,K, 324σ, withσ = 0.6 mJy); (d) the overlay of the observed 34 GHz image (red) on the 680 GHz image imaged with the 34 GHz beam (black) in contours taken at 10%, 20%,K,90% of the peak; and (e) the overlay of the 680 GHz image as if observed by the VLA (sampled on the VLA visibilities) with the 34 GHz observations taken at 3, 6, 9,12, Kσ, with σ = 3.5 μJy. Ellipses indicate the beam size listed in Table 1.

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Figure 7. Figure adapted from van der Marel et al. (2015b, their

Fig. 1, c©AAS, reproduced with permission). VLA observationsof IRS 48 at optically thin frequencies confirm the extreme lop-

sidedness of this TD. VLA observations at 34 GHz are shown inred contours - the tail towards the NE is likely due to stellar emis-

sion. ALMA band 9 observations at 680 GHz are shown in black

contours, after filtering for the VLA response. The field is 2 arcsecon a side. While at 34 GHz the crescent appears to be somewhat

more compact, the role of optical depth effects in widening the

680 GHz signal remain to be quantified.

trends in a comparison between VLA and ALMA ob-servations. The confirmation of lopsidedness at opticallythin VLA frequencies (see Fig. 7) dissipates worries thatthe asymmetry observed at high frequencies, which arelikely optically thick, could be related to optical deptheffects in this highly inclined disk.

4.1.3 MWC 758

Can all continuum asymmetries in TDs be interpretedas dust traps? MWC 758 presents an interesting caveat.The VLA 34 GHz image presented by Marino et al.(2015b, reproduced in Fig. 8), when compared with themore extended signal seen by ALMA, seems fairly con-sistent with the dust trap scenario, at least as well asin HD 142527 or IRS 48 given the available constraints.But in fact two pressure maxima (or anticyclonic vor-tices) would seem to be required to account for thedouble-peaked ALMA signal in MWC 758. Besides esti-mates of the sub mm optical depth are missing - whichrequires finer angular resolution sub mm data, as wellas an additional frequency point intermediate with theVLA.

The compact VLA signal in MWC 758 may also belooked at from an entirely different perspective. Anotherinterpretation could follow from the recent proposal byDong et al. (2015a) that the observed spiral pattern inMWC 758 are launched by planet could be launched by

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Figure 6. Figure adapted from Casassus et al. (2015b) . Upper row: multi-frequency data of HD 142527 brought to a common

uv-coverage. The ALMA data have been filtered for the ATCA response with Monte-Carlo simulations of ATCA observations on

deconvolved models of the ALMA data. a): restored ATCA image at 34 GHz. b): average of Monte-Carlo (MC) simulations of ATCAobservations on the ALMA band 7 data. c): MC simulations of ATCA observations on the ALMA band 9 data. Lower row: Grey-

body diagnostics inferred from the multi-frequency data. a: optical depth map at the reference frequency of 345 GHz. b: line of sight

emissivity index map β, with ATCA specific intensity contours in red. c: root-mean-square uncertainties on the emissivity index map.d: line of sight temperature, Ts.

a planet exterior to the arms, at a radius of ∼0.6 arcsec.Marino et al. (2015b) caution that the observed signal isquite close to the location of such a body, as illustratedin Fig. 9. Thus, the compact signal could be circumplan-etary dust that is heated by planet formation feedback,(as in the positive feedback leading to enhanced viscousheating proposed by Montesinos et al. 2015).

4.2 Mild asymmetries and radial dust traps

The above examples for extreme submm continuumasymmetries are seen in few HAeBe stars (stellar mass2 M), and are not typical of the average TD. MostTDs show milder azimuthal asymmetries when resolvedin the sub mm continuum. Examples of mild con-trast ratios, .4 or as could be reached by the gas,are HD 135344B, SR 21 (Perez et al. 2014; Pinillaet al. 2015) and LkHα 330 Isella et al. (2013). Giventheir coarseness, these observations could accommodatesharper asymmetries.

An interesting avenue to explain such mild asymme-tries could be spiral arm crowding. Indeed the asymme-try reported in HD 135344B (Perez et al. 2014) with arelatively coarse beam in ALMA Cycle 0, has been re-solved into a convergence of spiral arms (van der Marelet al. 2016, their Fig. 1). These spirals were hinted at inaxisymmetric model residuals (Perez et al. 2014; Pinillaet al. 2015). Local shock heating from the spiral waves(Rafikov 2016) could perhaps further pronounce asym-metries related to spirals, and lead to mild asymmetrieswhen observed in a coarse beam.

There are also examples of axially symmetric TDs,such as the TTauri J160421, SZ 91, DoAr 44 (Zhanget al. 2014; van der Marel et al. 2016) and SZ 91(Canovas et al. 2016). While azimuthal dust segregationor trapping does not seem to be required in such sys-tems with no or mild asymmetries, on the other handthe radial segregation of dust grain sizes seems to besystematically present in TDs. Radial trapping is of-ten invoked as a means to halt the catastrophic inward

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FIG. 5.— Parametric model predictions. (a) 33 GHz model image. (b)337 GHz model image. (c) Simulated VLA Ka observation using the modelimage. (d) Simulated ALMA band 7 observation using the model image. (e)Dereddened SED of MWC 758 (blue dots) compared with the model (redline). Photometric data points were taken from Høg et al. (2000); Cutri et al.(2003); Elia et al. (2005); Chapillon et al. (2008); Isella et al. (2010) and thenew VLA Ka and archival ALMA band 7 data presented in this work. Wederedden the observations assuming a visual extinction AV =0.22 (van denAncker et al. 1998) and an total-to-selective extinction ratio of RV =3.1. Theerrorbars represent 2 errors. In (a) and (b) the x & y axes indicate the offsetfrom the stellar position in RA and DEC in arcsec, i.e. north is up and westis right.

differential imaging) data (Benisty et al. 2015). The data wastaken on December 5, 2014 during the science verificationtime of SPHERE. MWC 758 was observed in DPI (dual po-larimetric imaging) mode in Y-band (1.04 µm) with the IRDISsub-instrument of SPHERE, with a 185 mas diameter coron-agraphic mask and a Lyot apodizer. 70 exposures of 64 sec-onds each were taken, of which 48 (total integration time 51.2minutes) were used for the reduction presented in this paper.PDI has proven to be a powerful technique to suppress thestellar light, and to first order approximates the reflected lightoff the disk surface by only measuring the polarized fractionof the light (Avenhaus et al. 2014). The frames were dark-subtracted, flat-fielded and bad pixels were removed, thencentered. The polarized flux was calculated and instrumental

FIG. 6.— Simulated ALMA observation at 337 GHz using a parametricmodel with 2 vortices. The x & y axes indicate the offset from the stellarposition in RA and DEC in arcsec, i.e. north is up and west is right.

effects accounted for in a way similar to that described in theAppendix of Avenhaus et al. (2014). In Figure 7, the resultingSPHERE image reveals the disk outside of the inner workingangle set by the coronagraph, including a strong, two-armedspiral.

FIG. 7.— SPHERE-ALMA-VLA overlay. In grey scale, the polarised inten-sity scaled by r2 to highlight the surface density of the disk. The decrementin the center correspond to the position of the coronagraph. The ALMA band7 MEM map is represented in blue contours, while the restored VLA Ka mapis presented in red contours. The contour levels are arbitrary to emphasisethe disk morphology. The x & y axes indicate the offset from the stellarposition in the RA and DEC in arcsec, i.e. north is up and west is right.

Unlike the case of HD 142527, where a large cavity of130 au is seen in scattered light (Avenhaus et al. 2014) andin the sub-mm (Casassus et al. 2013a; Fukagawa et al. 2013),exposing the inner rim of the outer disk to stellar radiation, theSPHERE PDI Y-band image of MWC 758 shows that, downto the inner working angle (26 au), the cavity is not depleted

Figure 9. Left: Spiral model involving a planetary mass companion, from Dong et al. (2015a, part of their Fig. 4, c©AAS, reproduced

with permission). The companion is highlighted as a green dot - and the field is rotated so that the companion approximately matchesthe location of the VLA clump seen in MWC 758. Right (adapted from Marino et al. 2015b): VLA data, in red contours, and ALMA

345GHz, in blue contours, overlaid on the SPHERE Y-band polarised intensity image (Benisty et al. 2015), in grey scale.

3.2. Comparison between ALMA and VLA Ka Maps

In Figure 3we present an overlay between the restored VLAKa image and the ALMA Band 7 MEM model. The VLA Kanorthern peak intensity matches the location of the ALMABand 7 maximum. At 337 GHz we expect that most of theemission comes from ∼millimeter-sized grains. If this intensitymaximum is tracing a maximum in the dust density distributionof millimeter-sized grains, the VLA and ALMA maximumcould be due to dust grains being trapped in a pressuremaximum of the gas. In the dust trap scenario, we would expectto observe at centimeter wavelengths a higher contrast betweenthe intensity maximum and the rest of the disk and a morecompact emission, probing the distribution of centimeter-sizedgrains that are more easily trapped in gas pressure maxima.However, the ALMA maps are not as well spatially resolved asthe VLA Ka image owing to differences in the u–v coverage. InSection 3.3 we compare both data sets at the same resolutionlevel.

Figure 3 also shows disk emission to the south of the stellarposition in the VLA Ka map that matches a second peakintensity in the ALMA MEM model. This peak is closer in thanthe northern clump, at an angular distance of ∼0 3. However,this local maximum disappears in the restored ALMA imageowing to the larger beam.

3.3. ALMA and VLA Ka Map at the Same Resolution Level

To bring both data sets to comparable resolutions, weconvolved the restored VLA Ka image with the ALMA Cleansynthetic beam of size 0 64× 0 40 after subtracting the stellaremission. We call this map the degraded VLA image. InFigure 4 we show the contour levels 0.6, 0.75, 0.85, and 0.92times thepeak intensity of the degraded VLA and restoredALMA images. The degraded VLA image presents amorphology similar to the ALMA MEM model with two peak

intensities: to the northwest and south of the star (see Figure 2).The northern clump in the degraded VLA image is still morecompact than in the restored ALMA image, with a largercontrast. The solid angle inside the 0.85 intensity maximumcontour in the degraded VLA image is 0.09 arcsec2, while it is0.23 arcsec2 in the ALMA map. This result supports the dusttrap interpretation, finding that the 33 GHz dust emission ismore compact than at 337 GHz.The peak intensity to the south of the star in the restored

VLA Ka image remains after star subtraction and convolutionwith the ALMA beam, with a morphology similar to thatobserved in the ALMA MEM model. The nature of thiscompact emission is not clear as it is just ∼4 times the noiselevel in the restored VLA Ka image. At the ALMA resolutionthe cavity is hard to distinguish, although the peak intensity isoffset from the stellar position in both maps, suggesting acavity depleted of big grains.To confirm the dust trap interpretation, ALMA observations

in extended configuration are required to resolve the disk with asimilar or finer resolution than the VLA Ka observations.Deeper VLA observations are also necessary to detect the restof the disk.

3.4. Parametric Nonaxisymmetric Model

We develop a parametric nonaxisymmetric disk model,inspired by the steady-state vortex solution to the gas and dustdistribution described in Lyra & Lin (2013, hereafter LL13).The aim is to reproduce part of the morphology seen in theALMA and VLA mapsand the global SED. The modelconsists of a central star surrounded by a disk of gas and dust.We model the star using a Kurucz template spectrum (Castelli1993) with a temperature of 8250 K and a stellar radius of

Figure 3. ALMA–VLA overlay. In blue is the ALMA Band 7 MEM model inan arbitrary color scale, while in red is the restored VLA Ka image contours setat arbitrary levels to highlight the morphology (the lowest contour level is4.2σ). The beam size of the restored VLA Ka image and ALMA MEM modelis represented by a red and blue ellipse, respectively. The x- and y-axes indicatethe offset from the stellar position in R.A. and decl. in arcsec, i.e., north is upand west is right.

Figure 4. ALMA–VLA map contouroverlay. Blue contours: ALMA Band 7restored image. Red contours: degraded VLA image (restored image aftersubtracting the star and convolving with the ALMA beam). The contour levelsare 0.6, 0.75, 0.85, and 0.92 times the peak intensity of each map. The lowestcontour level of the VLA map represents ∼3σ at this resolution. The dashedred and blue lines represent the 0.85 peak intensity level. The beam size of bothmaps is represented by a black ellipse. The x- and y-axes indicate the offsetfrom the stellar position in R.A. and decl. in arcsec, i.e., north is up and west isright.

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Figure 8. Figure adapted from Marino et al. (2015b, theirFig. 3). VLA observations of MWC 758 compared to a decon-

volved model of the ALMA band 7 visibilities. The VLA sig-nal is shown in red contours - the red ellipse corresponds tothe synthesised beam. The blue scale corresponds to an ‘MEM’

non-parametric model of the 337 GHz ALMA data - the blue el-lipse corresponds to a elliptical Gaussian fit to the point-spread-function of the ‘MEM’ algorithm.

migration of grains due to aerodynamic drag (Weiden-schilling 1977). The smaller and shallower cavities inthe gas phase compared to the dust were introducedin Sec. 3 as a feature of dynamical clearing by giantplanet formation. This is the same phenomenon as ra-dial trapping, since it is the radial bump in gas pressuregenerated by planet formation that traps the larger dustgrains in the outer disk (e.g. Pinilla et al. 2012, 2015).

4.3 Near-term prospects: the gasbackground and vortex velocity fields

The dust trap phenomenon is clearly at work in thetwo most extreme asymmetries, and could be an impor-tant mechanism in the evolution of the dust grain pop-ulation. However, accurate knowledge of the gas back-ground and physical conditions is required to estimatethe efficiency of trapping by aerodynamic coupling. Asyet there has been no confirmation of the velocity fieldsexpected in large-scale vortices, so an important un-known on the origin of the lopsided gas distributionsremains untackled. Another open question is, for in-stance, the impact of enhanced cooling in the dust trapon the maximum possible gas density contrast.

Taking the dust trapping scenario one step furtherposes a question on the potential of such dust trapsto form gaseous giants. What would be the impact onthe disk of massive bodies forming inside a dust trap

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at large stellocentric distances? Are there signs of suchbodies?

Both the observational and theoretical situations arequickly evolving. ALMA should soon provide additionalmulti-frequency continuum data with which to betterquantify the degree of trapping and the correspond-ing grain distributions. Perhaps resolved molecular linemaps of dust traps could be used to detect the expectedvortex velocity fields. Without an observational con-firmation, however, the question on the origin of thegaseous lopsided structures is still open.

5 SPIRALS

Observations in optical/IR scattered light of spirals inprotoplanetary disks have been discussed on several oc-casions, both in discovery articles (see below) and inmodelling efforts (Juhasz et al. 2015; Pohl et al. 2015;Dong et al. 2015b). The single-star systems where spi-rals have been reported seem to be TDs, i.e. they hosteither central cavities or gaps. It is possible that thesesystems are in fact binaries with a low mass ratio: theirspiral patterns bear similarities with the arc-like fea-tures seen in some binary disks, such as in AS 205 (Salyket al. 2014) and SR 24 (Mayama et al. 2010). The follow-ing is a list of spiral patterns in disks around primarystars that dominate by mass (relative to possible lowmass bodies embedded in the disks), some of which areshown in Fig. 10:

• HD 100546, with a 13 AU gap (e.g. Tatulli et al.2011; Avenhaus et al. 2014b), and tightly woundand complex spirals seen in the outer disk (Gradyet al. 2001; Boccaletti et al. 2013);

• HD 142527, with a 140 AU gap and both a granddesign spiral pattern in the outer disk as well asmore intricate spiral features carving the outeredge of the cavity (Fukagawa et al. 2006; Rameauet al. 2012; Casassus et al. 2012; Canovas et al.2013; Avenhaus et al. 2014a);

• AB Aur, with a gap between 40 and 140 AU(Hashimoto et al. 2011), also exhibits large scalespirals that modulate the outer disk, and seen inscattered light (Grady et al. 1999; Fukagawa et al.2004);

• HD 141569A, in the transition to debris disk (e.g.Thi et al. 2014), with several tightly-wound con-centric rings or spirals extending out to 400 AU,and a 175 AU cavity (Biller et al. 2015), also hostslarge-scale open spirals that may result from inter-action with the other members of this hierarchicalmultiple system (Clampin et al. 2003);

• MWC 758, with a central 100 AU cavity detectedin the sub mm (Isella et al. 2010) but not in thenear-IR (Grady et al. 2013), shows a large-scalegrand design two-armed spiral (Grady et al. 2013;

Benisty et al. 2015) recently interpreted as interiorspirals triggered by a companion at fairly wide sep-aration (0.5 arcsec, see Fig. 9, Dong et al. 2015a);

• HD 135344B has a ∼30 AU dust cavity (Carmonaet al. 2014), and a 2-armed grand-design spiralbest seen with polarised differential imaging (Mutoet al. 2012; Garufi et al. 2013; Wahhaj et al. 2015);

• HD 100453 is a recent addition to the list of knownspirals in TDs (Wagner et al. 2015; Dong et al.2016). This HAe disk, with ring enclosing a cavityof ∼20 AU, displays a two-armed spiral patternstemming from the ring, fairly open and extendingout to ∼42 AU.

There are, however, only two examples of molecular-line counterparts to the near-IR spirals in protoplane-tary disks. The AB Aur IR spirals were also detected inthe CO isotopologues (Corder et al. 2005; Lin et al.2006). Intriguingly the spirals in AB Aur appear tocounter-rotate with the disk, which led Tang et al.(2012) to propose that they stem from an infalling enve-lope (but the apparent counter-rotation could also re-sult from a Doppler flip due to a warp, see Sec. 2.2).As summarised in Fig. 11, Christiaens et al. (2014) re-ported very large scale 12CO spirals in HD 142527, oneof which appears to have a clear counterpart in the mostconspicuous IR spiral found by Fukagawa et al. (2006).

The radio detection of spirals in molecular-lines isvery important to estimate physical conditions, andsearch for kinematic trends, such as deviations from Ke-plerian rotation (as in AB Aur), that may help under-stand the origin of the spirals. Velocity dispersion mapsmay perhaps also be used to detect the compressionwave. For now, the molecular-line spirals in HD 142527allow estimates of temperature and column densities.Christiaens et al. (2014) find that the spirals are sur-prisingly cold, with 25 K near the continuum ring, anddown to 10-15 K further out. The Toomre Q param-eter, Q = csΩ/(πGΣ), for each of the two spirals S1

and S2, are 100 < QS1 < 50000, and 50 < QS2 < 35000,where the lower bound stems from the continuum non-detection (assuming a gas-to-dust ratio of 100), andthe upper bound is set by the assumption of opticallythin 12CO. Thus, the spirals seen in the outer disk ofHD 142527 appear to be gravitationally stable.

5.1 Near-term prospects: radio counterparts

The near future should see a multiplication of radiocounterparts to the IR spirals (e.g. the continuum coun-terparts in HD 135344B van der Marel et al. 2016).Radio observations, especially in molecular lines, arerequired to estimate physical conditions such as den-sity and temperature, and so find clues as to the originof spirals. In addition radio observations should help

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Figure 10. Gallery of optical/IR spirals. From left to right, we show scattered-light images of AB Aur (Fukagawa et al. 2004, partof their Fig. 3, c©AAS, reproduced with permission) , HD 141569A (Clampin et al. 2003, part of their Fig. 8, c©AAS, reproduced

with permission), HD 135344B (Garufi et al. 2013, part of their Fig. 1, c©ESO, reproduced with permission), and HD 100453 (Wagner

et al. 2015, part of their Fig. 2, c©AAS, reproduced with permission). All figures have been reproduced by permission of the AAS orA&A. In HD 100453 we have highlighted two intensity dips where the two-armed spiral pattern seem to stem from. These dips are very

reminiscent of the HD 142527 shadows, which also seem to be at the root of spirals.

Figure 11. Radio spirals from HD 142527 (Figure adapted from Christiaens et al. 2014). The CO(2-1) peak signal is shown on theleft, while CO(3-2) is shown on the right (the gray ellipse correspond to the clean beams). x− and y−axis indicate angular offset fromthe star, along RA and Dec., and in arcsec. Since the distance to HD 142527 is about 140 pc, the spirals are seen to extend out to700 pc in radius. The lozenge symbols indicate the most conspicuous IR spiral, from Fukagawa et al. (2006). The inverted-V decrement

in peak CO intensity, seen in both transitions, is due to interstellar absorption at velocities that correspond to these locations in theKeplerian outer disk.

in disentangling radiative transfer effects, such as pro-posed by Quillen (2006).

There are several on-going efforts on the theoreti-cal side, with the coupling of 3D hydrodynamics and3D radiative transfer applied to planet-disk interaction(e.g. Ober et al. 2015; Perez et al. 2015b; Dong et al.2015a). However, in addition to the gravitational in-teraction with massive bodies, either planetary-massor stellar, as in multiple stellar systems, perhaps otherphysical mechanisms may also launch spirals in circum-

stellar disks. One possibility is gravitational instabilityof the disk, whose observability in scattered light hasrecently been predicted from 3D radiative transfer andhydrodynamics (Dong et al. 2015b). Another example,motivated by the obvious link of the HD 142527 spiralswith the shadows cast on the outer disk by the innerwarp (which may also be observed in HD 100453), isthe proposal by Montesinos et al. (2016) that spiralscould result from the forcing of the temperature field inthe outer disk, as it is modulated by variable illumina-

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Fig. 2.— Density field evolution of a model disk with Md =0.25M⊙. Left column fixed L⋆ = 1L⊙, and the snapshots are (fromtop to bottom); 2500, 3500, and 4000 orbits. Right column simulatea L⋆ = 100L⊙ stellar flux model (same disk mass). From top tobottom; 150, 250, 500 orbits.

Fig. 3.— Gas pressure field after 30 orbits for a model with L⋆ =100L⊙, and 0.25M⊙ disk mass.

the dark to the illuminated side (from lower to higher pres-sure field), will experience a negative (clockwise direction)azimuthal acceleration.

In Figure 4 we plot the azimuthal component of a i.e.,aφ = −(1/rΣ)∂P/∂φ after 30 orbits, for four models; onthe left column we compare the azimuthal acceleration fora disk mass model with 0.05M⊙, varying the stellar lu-minosity to L⋆ = 1L⊙ (top), and L⋆ = 100L⊙ (bottom).The right column shows models with the same luminosi-ties but for a disk mass 0.25M⊙. We notice that the mag-nitude of the azimuthal acceleration is increased linearlywith the luminosity of the primary. For instance, in Figure4 (right panel), the azimuthal acceleration increase from0.2 cm s−2 to 24 cm s−2 when the stellar irradiation passesfrom L⋆ = 1L⊙ to L⋆ = 100L⊙ (amplified by a factor 100).On the other hand, we observe that this acceleration de-crease when the mass of the disk is increased.

As soon as the shadows are projected in the simulation,

Fig. 4.— Azimuthal accelerations (aφ = −(1/rΣ)∂P/∂φ) due thevariations of the pressure field after 30 orbits. Left column corre-spond to a lighter disk with 0.05M⊙ for different stellar irradiation;L⋆ = 1L⊙ (top), L⋆ = 100L⊙ (bottom). The right column set amassive disk with 0.25M⊙ and; L⋆ = 1L⊙ (top), L⋆ = 100L⊙ (bot-tom).

the clock/anti-clockwise accelerations deeply impact thevelocity field and the disk evolution. For instance, Figure5 shows how the radial velocity is modified by the presenceof the gradient pressure.

As observed in Figure 5, when no shadows are allowed,the pressure field did not vary in the azimuthal direc-tion, therefore ∇φP ∼ cte, consequently the radial ve-locity follows a standard accretion disk model. In thatcase (Figure 5 top panel, left figure) the radial velocityreach −24 cm s−1 in a region close to the inner edge of thedisk (at the very inner edge, radial velocity reach vr = 0as a boundary condition), and no azimuthal component isobserved. When shadows are projected in a model withL⋆ = 1L⊙, a twist in the radial velocity profile is producedby the azimuthal changes in the pressure field (∇φP , seeFigure 4).

We saw that the azimuthal acceleration is enhanced lin-early with the increment of the stellar irradiation. Con-sequently, when we pass from a model with L⋆ = 1L⊙ toL⋆ = 100L⊙, we also notice a linear increment in the ra-dial velocity (at the edge of the disk) from −30 cm s−1 to−2250 cm s−1 (enhanced by an order ∼ 2, see Figure 5).

These azimuthal variations (twists) in the velocity field,created by the changes in the gradient pressure field, in-fluence the gas at the very beginning of the simulation(or once the shadows are completely projected), modify-ing thus the evolution of the disk, giving rise to the spiralpattern described earlier (see Figure 2).

To understand why these twists enhance linearly withthe stellar luminosity, and decrease with the mass of thedisk is simple; assuming a more luminous central star,irradiation heats more the illuminated part of the disk.But this increment will not affect the shadowed region,therefore, both regions will present higher contrasts in thepressure field as the stellar irradiation is increased, cre-ating higher azimuthal accelerations, producing thus theobserved spiral structures.

As for the mass of the disk, in general, temperatures arelower as the disk gain in density. Therefore, for the mas-sive model, the illuminated part of the disk has a lowertemperature than a lighter disk. Consequently, the con-trast in the pressure field between the dark/illuminatedregions diminish for the denser disk model, reducing thusazimuthal accelerations.

Figure 12. Spirals launched from the temperature forcing of theouter disk by shadows projected from a tilted inner disk - as in

HD 142527 (and perhaps also in HD 100453). The image showsa snapshot of the density field at 250 orbits, under the effect of

shadows aligned in the East-West direction (from Montesinos

et al. 2016).

tion due to non-axially symmetric shadowing from theinner regions. This idea is illustrated in Fig. 12.

6 THE ROLE OF EMBEDDEDPROTOPLANETS

Key to understanding the astrophysics of circumstel-lar disks, and eventually giant planet formation, isdefinitive information on the proto-planetary systemsthat these disks potentially host. Three promising pro-toplanet detections have recently been reported fromtheir thermal signal at ∼3 µm, in the gapped disksHD 100546 (Quanz et al. 2013, 2015), HD 169142 (Reg-giani et al. 2014) and in LkCa 15 (Sallum et al. 2015).The interpretation of these unresolved signals is diffi-cult, as accretion onto a compact body heats its sur-roundings (e.g. Montesinos et al. 2015), resulting in anextended thermal signal well in excess of genuine pho-tospheric emission, and perhaps also a local scale heightenhancement. An example of such extended near-IRemission, both in thermal emission (e.g. in L band) andin scattered-light (e.g. in K band), is the spatially ex-tended signal from HD 100546b (Garufi et al. 2016). Ingeneral the morphological details of such circumplane-tary regions are very difficult to ascertain because of ob-servational biases, either in the high-contrast techniquesor in near-IR interferometry, which are being tackled bytechnological breakthroughs (i.e. with extreme AO cam-eras such as GPI and SPHERE, and the next-generationinterferometry instruments such as VLTI-MATISSE).In the case of LkCa 15 the interpretation in terms of

an accreting body is strengthened by the detection ofcoincident and unresolved Hα emission.

A different avenue to detect embedded protoplan-ets, and estimate their mass, is to identify the corre-sponding kinematical signature of the circumplanetarydisk (CPD). Perez et al. (2015b) study the observabil-ity of such CPDs with ALMA using molecular lines,by coupling 3D hydrodynamical simulations and radia-tive transfer, and after filtering for the instrumental re-sponse6. They predict that the CPD from an accretinggaseous giant should stand out in velocity dispersionmaps. In addition the channel maps with disk emissionat the position of the protoplanet should show a kink(i.e. a tight local bend), whose amplitude depends onthe planet mass. Starting from ALMA Cycle 3, suchlong baseline observations with ALMA are routinelypossible, so that prospects are good for the detectionof the kinematical signatures of CPDs.

7 CONCLUSION

While accurate knowledge on the existence of embeddedprotoplanetary systems is still far from systematicallyavailable, resolved observations of TDs reveal surprisingstructures. The observed phenomena do not readily fitin the picture expected for TDs as sculptures of planetformation. Instead, the basic idea of flat protoplanetarydisk system is being challenged by the observations ofwarps, whose frequency remains to be assessed. Resid-ual gas inside cavities is clearly observed, as expectedfor dynamical clearing, but the concomitant protoplan-etary streamers are still elusive. The observed intra-cavity stellocentric accretion, in the single case whereit has been detected, occurs at much higher velocitiesthan expected for planetary accretion streams.

The outer regions of TDs often seem to be non-axiallysymmetric - quite dramatically so in a couple of in-stances. This observation could bring confirmation forthe scenario of ‘dust trapping’ as a way to circumventthe catastrophic infall of the larger dust grains due toaerodynamical drag. While dust size segregation hasclearly been demonstrated to exist, the origin of therequired gaseous asymmetry in a large anticyclonic vor-tex remains to be confirmed observationally. There doesnot seem to be a clear observational connection betweenthe outer disk asymmetry and on-going planet forma-tion, as illustred by the case of LkCa 15, with a detec-tion of protoplanetary accretion (Sallum et al. 2015),and a seemingly perfectly symmetric outer disk (vander Marel et al. 2015a).

The observations of TDs have also revealed spectac-ular spiral arms, the origin of which still remains thesubject of intense debate. They could be launched by

6including real phase noise taken from the HL Tau dataset pre-sented by ALMA Partnership et al. (2015)

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planets, or result from gravitational instability, or beinduced from variable illumination (Montesinos et al.2016). Once launched, the frequent observation of spi-rals in systems with cavities and non-axially symmetricouter disks suggests that spirals may play a crucial rolein disk evolution, as argued by Rafikov (2016). New datawill soon provide estimates of physical conditions withwhich to test these ideas.

Finally, it appears that physical processes other thanplanet formation are governing the TD phase of Class IIYSOs, since most large cavities seem empty of mas-sive bodies. Perhaps well identifiable planet formationstructures have to be searched for at earlier evolution-ary stages, i.e. in Class I disks such as HL Tau (ALMAPartnership et al. 2015; Testi et al. 2015; Dipierro et al.2015; Gonzalez et al. 2015; Pinte et al. 2016).

8 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We thank the following disk workers for very useful input:Henning Avenhaus, Mark Booth, Valentin Christiaens, Lu-cas Cieza, Sebastian Marino, Matıas Montesinos, SebastianPerez, Dave Principe, Nienke van der Marel, Gerrit vander Plas and Matthias Schreiber. Financial support wasprovided by Millennium Nucleus RC130007 (Chilean Min-istry of Economy), and additionally by FONDECYT grant1130949.

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