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Dust masses of Upper Scorpius disks and their statistics
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A solar energy research paper on Dust masses of Upper Scorpius disks and their statistics.
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The total dust mass of protoplanetary disks is a key property that determines the potential for planet formation. Upper Scorpius (USco), with an age of ~5-12Myr, provides an important laboratory for investigating the evolution of dust reservoirs on timescales comparable to those of planet formation. In this work, we analyze the dust mass distribution of 136 full and transitional disks in USco using the largest ALMA 0.88mm continuum sample currently available for the region. To improve the accuracy of dust mass estimates, we construct a grid of 918 self-consistent radiative transfer models that account for stellar-mass-dependent disk sizes, accretion rates, and porous dust properties. The models yield a new calibration between dust temperature and stellar luminosity, predicting systematically higher dust temperatures for low-mass stars than commonly adopted prescriptions. Using these revised dust temperatures together with porous dust opacities, we derive dust masses for the USco disks and compare them with those of a younger sample in the Chamaeleon~I star-forming region. We find a median dust mass of 0.95M_E for the USco disks, approximately six times lower than that of the Chamaeleon I disks (5.69M_E), providing strong evidence for substantial depletion of millimeter-sized dust grains over the first several Myr of disk evolution. We confirm the previous finding of a highly significant correlation between stellar mass and dust mass, with a slightly steeper relation in USco than in Chamaeleon I. The low dust masses observed in USco, together with their comparison to mature exoplanetary systems, suggest that a large fraction of the primordial solid reservoir has already been incorporated into larger bodies, removed by radial drift, or hidden from millimeter observations by ages of 5-12 Myr.
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