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arxiv: 2606.05132 · v1 · pith:OZXB5TPLnew · submitted 2026-06-03 · 🌌 astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.GA· astro-ph.SR

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): Formaldehyde (H₂CO) emission and its links to disk properties

Ella Chevalier , Ke Zhang , Miguel Vioque , Nicol\'as T. Kurtovic , Paola Pinilla , James Miley , Dingshan Deng , John Carpenter
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Carolina Agurto-Gangas Anibal Sierra
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H2CO line luminosity in protoplanetary disks correlates strongly with disk radius, mass, and stellar properties, indicating brighter emission in extended massive disks via CO ice hydrogenation on grains.

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The paper analyzes H2CO emission at two frequencies in 20 Class II disks from the Lupus and Upper Sco regions observed with ALMA. It reports a 45 percent detection rate, derives excitation temperatures and column densities for detections, and combines the sample with 13 archival sources. Strong positive correlations emerge between H2CO line luminosity and dust radius, gas radius, dust mass, gas mass, stellar mass, and stellar luminosity. These patterns are interpreted as evidence that H2CO forms primarily through CO ice hydrogenation on grain surfaces in larger, more massive disks. The excitation temperature also increases with stellar mass and luminosity.

Core claim

Across the combined sample of protoplanetary disks, H2CO line luminosity shows strong correlations with dust radius, gas radius, dust mass, gas mass, stellar mass, and stellar luminosity. This indicates that H2CO emission is brighter for extended massive dust disks where formation occurs via CO ice hydrogenation on grain surfaces. The H2CO excitation temperature correlates with stellar mass and stellar luminosity, suggesting more massive and luminous stars increase H2CO excitation.

What carries the argument

Correlations between H2CO line luminosity and disk/stellar parameters, used to link emission strength to grain-surface formation in extended disks.

If this is right

  • H2CO serves as a tracer for the extent and mass of protoplanetary disks.
  • Disks around more massive stars exhibit both brighter H2CO emission and higher excitation temperatures.
  • Chemical models must account for enhanced grain-surface H2CO production in larger disks to match observations.
  • The availability of H2CO for incorporation into planets depends on initial disk size and mass.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Similar correlations may exist for other grain-surface organics such as methanol, offering a way to map formation pathways across multiple species.
  • Time evolution of disk radius and mass could reduce H2CO emission as disks disperse, affecting organic delivery to forming planets.
  • Target selection for future ALMA surveys of complex organics could prioritize extended massive disks to maximize detection rates.

Load-bearing premise

The observed luminosity correlations primarily trace the grain-surface formation pathway rather than being driven by variations in excitation conditions, optical depth, or radial abundance profiles.

What would settle it

A larger sample of disks showing no correlations between H2CO luminosity and disk radius or mass, or correlations fully explained by temperature gradients alone without abundance changes, would undermine the grain-surface interpretation.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.05132 by Anibal Sierra, Carolina Agurto-Gangas, Dingshan Deng, Ella Chevalier, James Miley, John Carpenter, Ke Zhang, Miguel Vioque, Nicol\'as T. Kurtovic, Paola Pinilla.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Moment-zero maps for the Lupus and Upper Sco sources with H2CO detections. The first row for each region shows the total continuum emission at 1.3mm. The remaining two rows show the total emission for H2CO in both wavelength bands. The beam size is shown in the bottom left. The grayscale panels represent the lines without confident 3σ H2CO detections. No data is available for the H2CO p-4-3 line for Upper … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Radial profiles for the Lupus and Upper Sco sources with H2CO detections. The R90 value, or the radius at which 90% of the flux is enclosed, is labeled. The beam size is shown in the top right corner. The dust radial profiles are overplotted in gold and teal for Lupus and Upper Sco, respectively, but are not shown to scale. While Lupus 3 is less resolved (larger beam sizes) compared to Lupus 10, clear H2CO… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: The rotational diagrams for the five sources with two H2CO detections. The diagram shows the linear fit between the two data points. From the linear fit, the slope is used to calculate the excitation temperature and the y-intercept is used to calculate the total column density. The errorbars are too small to be visible. 3.3. Correlation Analysis To investigate the origin and excitation of H2CO emis￾sion in… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Correlations with the H2CO p-3-2 and H2CO p-4-3 line fluxes normalized to 150 pc. All points have errorbars, but they are often too small to be visible. The correlation coefficient r from the linmix Python package is displayed on each plot. The gray lines show samples from the posterior of the dataset, and the dashed black line is the mean fit. Literature sources are from Pegues et al. (2020), and labels a… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Correlations with Tex and disk parameters. The excitation temperature is only found to be significantly correlated with the stellar mass and luminosity. All other correlations have a p-value greater than 0.05. While the spread of the data appears farther from the trend line compared to the line luminosity correlations, the higher errorbars likely result in a stronger correlation being possible. scatter by … view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Correlations with CO line luminosities and H2CO line luminosities normalized to 150 pc. Only C18O J=2-1 line luminosities are recorded in Pegues et al. (2020) for the disks from the literature. The CO, 13CO, and H2CO p-3-2 line luminosities for AS 209, GM Aur, HD 163296, IM Lup, and MWC 480 are taken from Oberg et al. ¨ (2021). H2CO Parameter M∗ Mgas Mdust Rgas Rdust L⋆ CO Flux 13CO Flux C18O Flux LH2CO,3−… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Correlations between H2CO p-3-2 line flux and H2CO p-4-3 line flux normalized to 150 pc. The diamonds represent the disks with 3σ upper limit values for both the p-3-2 and p-4-3 lines, while the triangles represent the disks with detections toward p-4-3 and 3σ upper limits toward p-3-2. We include the disks from Pegues et al. (2020) with fluxes recorded for both the p-3-2 and p-4-3 lines. The dashed trend … view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: H2CO line fluxes, excitation temperatures, and total column densities grouped by star-forming region. The square represents the median value for the disks in each region. We note that in the top panels, Lupus 10’s large H2CO flux is an outlier that skews the location of the me￾dian point for the Lupus region. In our sample, we detect H2CO in 3 disks in the young Lupus star forming region and in 6 disks in … view at source ↗
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Protoplanetary disks are rotating structures of gas and dust surrounding young stars, serving as the birth places of planets. Understanding the chemical evolution of organic materials in these disks is key for tracing the origins of organics in planetary systems. Formaldehyde (H$_2$CO) is the most commonly detected organic molecule in protoplanetary disks. In this study, we investigate the emission of H$_2$CO and its link to disk properties, using a sample of 20 Class II disks in the Lupus and Upper Sco star-forming regions spanning over 1-6 Myr. We analyze the H$_2$CO lines at 218.222 and 290.623 GHz observed as part of the AGE-PRO ALMA Large Program. Within this sample we achieve a detection rate of H$_2$CO of 45% (9/20), and set robust upper limits for the non-detections. We measure the excitation temperature and column density of the H$_2$CO gas in the sources with H$_2$CO detections. We combine our sample with 13 additional disks with archival H$_2$CO detections and search for correlations between H$_2$CO properties and disk parameters. Notably, we find strong correlations between H$_2$CO line luminosity and dust radius, gas radius, dust mass, gas mass, stellar mass, and stellar luminosity. This suggests that H$_2$CO emission is brighter for extended massive dust disks where H$_2$CO can form via CO ice hydrogenation on grain surfaces. We find that the H$_2$CO excitation temperature is also correlated with stellar mass and stellar luminosity, so more massive and luminous stars could increase H$_2$CO excitation.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript reports ALMA observations of H2CO (formaldehyde) emission toward 20 Class II protoplanetary disks in Lupus and Upper Sco as part of the AGE-PRO Large Program. It achieves a 45% detection rate (9/20 sources), derives excitation temperatures and column densities for the detections, combines the sample with 13 archival H2CO detections, and identifies strong correlations between H2CO line luminosity and dust/gas radii, dust/gas masses, stellar mass, and stellar luminosity. The authors interpret these correlations as evidence that H2CO forms primarily via CO ice hydrogenation on grain surfaces in extended, massive disks, and additionally report that Tex correlates with stellar mass and luminosity.

Significance. If the reported correlations can be shown to be robust against excitation and selection effects, the work would strengthen the observational link between disk structural properties and the formation efficiency of complex organics, with direct relevance to models of prebiotic chemistry and the delivery of organics during planet formation. The addition of uniform new observations to the existing H2CO sample is a useful contribution to the field.

major comments (3)
  1. [§4] §4 (correlation analysis): The headline claim that H2CO line luminosity traces grain-surface formation in extended massive disks rests on raw luminosity correlations with radii, masses, and stellar parameters. However, the manuscript also reports that Tex correlates with stellar mass and luminosity; because line luminosity depends on column density, Tex, optical depth, and emitting area, the analysis must demonstrate that the reported correlations survive after controlling for Tex (e.g., via partial correlation coefficients or normalization to column density). Without this step the formation-pathway interpretation remains under-constrained.
  2. [§3, §4] §3 and §4 (sample construction): The combined sample of 9 new detections plus 13 archival sources of heterogeneous sensitivity and spatial resolution is used for the correlation analysis. A quantitative assessment of selection biases (e.g., whether brighter or more extended disks are preferentially detected in the archival subset) is required; otherwise the correlations with dust/gas radius and mass may be partly driven by sensitivity limits rather than intrinsic chemistry.
  3. [§4] §4 (statistical treatment): The correlations are described as 'strong,' yet the manuscript provides no details on the handling of upper limits for the 11 non-detections or on the statistical significance (e.g., via censored regression or survival analysis). This information is load-bearing for the robustness of the central claim linking H2CO luminosity to disk properties.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Figure 3] Figure 3 (or equivalent correlation plots): Include the non-detections as upper-limit arrows so that the full sample distribution is visible; this would strengthen the visual support for the reported trends.
  2. [Abstract, §4] Abstract and §4: Clarify whether the 45% detection rate refers strictly to the 20 AGE-PRO targets or to the combined sample; also state the typical rms noise levels achieved for the non-detections.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive comments on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and will make the indicated revisions to strengthen the analysis and presentation.

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  1. Referee: [§4] §4 (correlation analysis): The headline claim that H2CO line luminosity traces grain-surface formation in extended massive disks rests on raw luminosity correlations with radii, masses, and stellar parameters. However, the manuscript also reports that Tex correlates with stellar mass and luminosity; because line luminosity depends on column density, Tex, optical depth, and emitting area, the analysis must demonstrate that the reported correlations survive after controlling for Tex (e.g., via partial correlation coefficients or normalization to column density). Without this step the formation-pathway interpretation remains under-constrained.

    Authors: We agree that controlling for Tex is important given the reported correlation between Tex and stellar parameters. In the revised manuscript we will add partial correlation coefficients to quantify how the H2CO line luminosity correlations with disk radii, masses, and stellar parameters hold after accounting for Tex. We will also discuss the implications for the grain-surface formation interpretation. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3, §4] §3 and §4 (sample construction): The combined sample of 9 new detections plus 13 archival sources of heterogeneous sensitivity and spatial resolution is used for the correlation analysis. A quantitative assessment of selection biases (e.g., whether brighter or more extended disks are preferentially detected in the archival subset) is required; otherwise the correlations with dust/gas radius and mass may be partly driven by sensitivity limits rather than intrinsic chemistry.

    Authors: We acknowledge the heterogeneous nature of the archival data. In the revision we will add a quantitative assessment of selection biases, including a direct comparison of correlation strengths derived from the uniform AGE-PRO subsample versus the full combined sample, and an explicit discussion of how sensitivity and resolution differences could influence the observed trends with radius and mass. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§4] §4 (statistical treatment): The correlations are described as 'strong,' yet the manuscript provides no details on the handling of upper limits for the 11 non-detections or on the statistical significance (e.g., via censored regression or survival analysis). This information is load-bearing for the robustness of the central claim linking H2CO luminosity to disk properties.

    Authors: We will expand the statistical methods section to detail how upper limits are treated. The correlations are computed on the detected sources (new plus archival), with upper limits shown in figures for context but not included in the fits. We will add a clear statement on this approach and, where feasible, explore the application of censored regression or survival analysis to incorporate the non-detections. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical correlations from direct observations

full rationale

The paper reports measured H2CO line luminosities, excitation temperatures, and column densities from ALMA data for 9 detections (plus archival sources), then computes Pearson/Spearman correlations against independently derived disk parameters (dust/gas radii, masses, stellar mass/luminosity). No equations, fits, or predictions reduce the reported luminosities or correlations to quantities defined by the same data; the formation-pathway interpretation is post-hoc and does not enter the measurement chain. Self-citations, if present, are not load-bearing for the central observational result.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claim rests on standard assumptions for converting molecular line intensities to physical quantities and on the interpretation that correlations imply a specific formation route.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Local thermodynamic equilibrium or optically thin assumptions used when deriving excitation temperature and column density from the two observed lines.
    Standard in molecular astrophysics but not specified in the abstract.

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