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Submillimeter emission associated with candidate protoplanets

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2019-07-17 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We present the discovery of a spatially unresolved source of sub-millimeter continuum emission (λ=855\lambda=855 μ\mum) associated with a young planet, PDS 70 c, recently detected in Hα\alpha emission around the 5 Myr old T Tauri star PDS 70. We interpret the emission as originating from a dusty circumplanetary disk with a dust mass between 2×1032\times10^{-3} and 4.2×1034.2 \times 10^{-3} Earth masses. Assuming a standard gas-to-dust ratio of 100, the ratio between the total mass of the circumplanetary disk and the mass of the central planet would be between 10410510^{-4}-10^{-5}. Furthermore, we report the discovery of another compact continuum source located 0.074±0.0130.074''\pm0.013'' South-West of a second known planet in this system, PDS 70 b, that was previously detected in near-infrared images. We speculate that the latter source might trace dust orbiting in proximity of the planet, but more sensitive observations are required to unveil its nature.

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@article{arxiv.1906.06308,
  title  = {Submillimeter emission associated with candidate protoplanets},
  author = {Andrea Isella and Myriam Benisty and Richard Teague and Jaehan Bae and Miriam Keppler and Stefano Facchini and Laura M Pérez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.06308},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Accepted for publication on ApJL

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