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Keck/OSIRIS Pa$\beta$ high-contrast imaging and updated constraints on PDS~70b

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2021-11-03 v1

Abstract

We present a high-contrast imaging search for Paβ\beta line emission from protoplanets in the PDS~70 system with Keck/OSIRIS integral field spectroscopy. We applied the high-resolution spectral differential imaging technique to the OSIRIS JJ-band data but did not detect the Paβ\beta line at the level predicted using the parameters of \cite{Hashimoto2020}. This lack of Paβ\beta emission suggests the MUSE-based study may have overestimated the line width of Hα\alpha. We compared our Paβ\beta detection limits with the previous Hα\alpha flux and Hβ\beta limits and estimated AVA_{\rm V} to be 0.9\sim0.9 and 2.0 for PDS~70~b and c respectively. In particular, PDS~70~b's AVA_{\rm V} is much smaller than implied by high-contrast near-infrared studies, which suggests the infrared-continuum photosphere and the hydrogen-emitting regions exist at different heights above the forming planet.

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@article{arxiv.2109.06930,
  title  = {Keck/OSIRIS Pa$\beta$ high-contrast imaging and updated constraints on PDS~70b},
  author = {Taichi Uyama and Chen Xie and Yuhiko Aoyama and Charles A. Beichman and Jun Hashimoto and Ruobing Dong and Yasuhiro Hasegawa and Masahiro Ikoma and Dimitri Mawet and Michael W. McElwain and Jean-Baptiste Ruffio and Kevin R. Wagner and Jason J. Wang and Yifan Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.06930},
  year   = {2021}
}

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8pages, 5 figs, accepted for publication in AJ