Description
We present the highest angular resolution (20x15mas - 44x33au) Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) observations currently possible of the proto-O-star G17.64+0.16 in Band 6. The Cycle 5 observations with baselines out to 16 km probes scales <50au and reveal the rotating disc around G17.64+0.16, a massive forming O-type star. The disc has a ring-like enhancement in the dust emission, especially visible as arc structures to the north and south. The Keplerian kinematics are most prominently seen in the vibrationally excited water line, H_2_O (Eu=3461.9K). The mass of the central source found by modelling the Keplerian rotation is consistent with 45+/-10M_{sun}_. The H30alpha (231.9GHz) radio-recombination line and the SiO (5-4) molecular line were detected at up to the 10-sigma level. The estimated disc mass is 0.6-2.6M_{sun}_ under the optically thin assumption. Analysis of the Toomre Q parameter, in the optically thin regime, indicates that the disc stability is highly dependent on temperature. The disc currently appears stable for temperatures >150K, this does not preclude that the substructures formed earlier through disc fragmentation.
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