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Register a new userImaging [CI] around HD 131835: reinterpreting young debris discs with protoplanetary disc levels of CO gas as shielded secondary discs
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Despite being $>10$Myr, there are $sim$10 debris discs with as much CO gas as in protoplanetary discs. Such discs have been assumed to be hybrid, i.e., with secondary dust but primordial gas. Here we show that both the dust and gas in such systems could instead be secondary, with the high CO content caused by accumulation of neutral carbon (C$^0$) that shields CO from photodissociating; i.e., these could be shielded secondary discs. New ALMA observations are presented of HD131835 that detect $sim 3 times 10^{-3}$ M$_oplus$ of C$^0$, the majority 40-200au from the star, in sufficient quantity to shield the previously detected CO. A simple semi-analytic model for the evolution of CO, C and O originating in a volatile-rich planetesimal belt shows how CO shielding becomes important when the viscous evolution is slow (low $alpha$ parameter) and/or the CO production rate is high. Shielding by C$^0$ may also cause the CO content to reach levels at which CO self-shields, and the gas disc may become massive enough to affect the dust evolution. Application to the HD 131835 observations shows these can be explained if $alpha sim 10^{-3}$; an inner cavity in C$^0$ and CO may also mean the system has yet to reach steady state. Application to other debris discs with high CO content finds general agreement for $alpha=10^{-3}$ to $0.1$. The shielded secondary nature of these gas discs can be tested by searching for C$^0$, as well as CN, N$_2$ and CH$^{+}$, which are also expected to be shielded by C$^0$.
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