DiskMINT-GARDEN: Self-consistent Models to Estimate Disk Masses

arXiv:2606.26332 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-06-24 · Read on arXiv

Dingshan Deng, Uma Gorti, Ilaria Pascucci, Maxime Ruaud

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-06-24

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ. 24 pages, 10 figures

Code: https://github.com/DingshanDeng/DiskMINT

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gist: We present DiskMINT-GARDEN, a grid of self-consistent models together with a fast, open source inference tool for disk masses.

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Abstract

We present DiskMINT-GARDEN, a grid of self-consistent models together with a fast, open source inference tool for disk masses. The grid is built on DiskMINT, a tool which couples hydrostatic disk structure, continuum/line radiative transfer, and a reduced CO chemical network including freeze-out, grain-surface conversion, and isotope-selective photodissociation. DiskMINT-GARDEN model grid spans a large range of stellar mass (0.1-2.0,M), gas disk mass (10-5-10-1,M), dust-to-gas ratio (0.003-0.1), and characteristic radius (10-300, au), and provides synthetic ALMA observables. We train a machine-learning regression model to infer the disk mass, dust-to-gas mass ratio, and disk size from the dust continuum and C 18O line observations. Applying DiskMINT-GARDEN to archival ALMA data of 34 disks, we find gas masses in good agreement with dynamical and HD-based estimates. Comparing our results with estimates from chemical modeling using DALI, we find that their need for large-scale elemental or CO depletion can be accounted for by grain-surface chemistry implemented in DiskMINT, with CO conversion to CO 2 being one of the main reactions. Therefore, extant data suggest little chemical processing due to disk evolutionary processes.

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