Submillimeter emission associated with candidate protoplanets
Abstract
We present the discovery of a spatially unresolved source of sub-millimeter continuum emission ( m) associated with a young planet, PDS 70 c, recently detected in H 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 and 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 . Furthermore, we report the discovery of another compact continuum source located 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