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A Submillimeter Galaxy Projected on the Debris Disk of HD 95086

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2018-02-16 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We present sensitive observations carried out with the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) of the dusty debris disk HD 95086. These observations were made in bands 6 (223 GHz) and 7 (338 GHz) with an angular resolution of about 1'' which allowed us to resolve well the debris disk with a deconvolved size of 7.0'' ×\times 6.0'' and with an inner depression of about 2''. We do not detect emission from the star itself and the possible inner dusty belt. We also do not detect CO (J=2-1) and (J=3-2) emission, excluding the possibility of an evolved gaseous primordial disk as noted in previous studies of HD95086. We estimated a lower limit for the gas mass of \leq0.01 M_\oplus for the debris disk of HD95086. From the mm. emission, we computed a dust mass for the debris disk HD95086 of 0.5±\pm0.2 M_\oplus, resulting in a dust-to-gas ratio of \geq50. Finally, we confirm the detection of a strong submillimeter source to the northwest of the disk (ALMA-SMM1) revealed by recent ALMA observations. This new source might be interpreted as a planet in formation on the periphery of the debris disk HD 95086 or as a strong impact between dwarf planets. However, given the absence of the proper motions of ALMA-SMM1 similar to those reported in the debris disk (estimated from these new ALMA observations) and for the optical star, this is more likely to be a submillimeter background galaxy.

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@article{arxiv.1802.05301,
  title  = {A Submillimeter Galaxy Projected on the Debris Disk of HD 95086},
  author = {Luis A. Zapata and Paul Ho and Luis F. Rodriguez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.05301},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Accepted for publication in MNRAS