Description
We aim to obtain a spatially resolved measurement of velocity dispersions in the disk of TW Hya. We obtained images with high spatial and spectral resolution of the CO J=2-1, CN N=2-1 and CS J=5-4 emission with ALMA in Cycle 2. The radial distribution of the turbulent broadening was derived with two direct methods and one modelling approach. The first method requires a single transition and derives T_ex_ directly from the line profile, yielding a v_turb_. The second method assumes that two different molecules are co-spatial, which allows using their relative line widths for calculating T_kin_ and v_turb_. Finally we fitted a parametric disk model in which the physical properties of the disk are described by power laws, to compare our direct methods with previous values.
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