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| Subject: HD 97048 - Imaged protoplanetary disk and evidence of orbiting planet 7th July 2019, 9:38 pm | |
| Kinematic detection of a planet carving a gap in a protoplanetary disc https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.02538 - Quote :
- We still do not understand how planets form, or why extra-solar planetary systems are so different from our own solar system. But the last few years have dramatically changed our view of the discs of gas and dust around young stars. Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and extreme adaptive-optics systems have revealed that most --- if not all --- discs contain substructure, including rings and gaps, spirals, azimuthal dust concentrations, and shadows cast by misaligned inner discs. These features have been interpreted as signatures of newborn protoplanets, but the exact origin is unknown. Here we report the kinematic detection of a few Jupiter-mass planet located in a gas and dust gap at 130 au in the disc surrounding the young star HD 97048. An embedded planet can explain both the disturbed Keplerian flow of the gas, detected in CO lines, and the gap detected in the dust disc at the same radius. While gaps appear to be a common feature in protoplanetary discs, we present a direct correspondence between a planet and a dust gap, indicating that at least some gaps are the result of planet-disc interactions.
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Edasich dK star
Number of posts : 2289 Location : Tau Ceti g - Mid Latitudes Registration date : 2008-06-02
| Subject: Re: HD 97048 - Imaged protoplanetary disk and evidence of orbiting planet 17th April 2023, 12:00 pm | |
| Thread bump to remind that CU Cha/HD 97048 along with this one might be regarded as planet detections or at least as "planet candidates" Is the DS Tau disc hiding a planet?IMHO... yes. [tquote]Recent mm-wavelength surveys performed with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) have revealed protoplanetary discs characterized by rings and gaps. A possible explanation for the origin of such rings is the tidal interaction with an unseen planetary companion. The protoplanetary disc around DS Tau shows a wide gap in the ALMA observation at 1.3 mm. We construct a hydrodynamical model for the dust continuum observed by ALMA assuming the observed gap is carved by a planet between one and five Jupiter masses. We fit the shape of the radial intensity profile along the disc major axis varying the planet mass, the dust disc mass, and the evolution time of the system. The best fitting model is obtained for a planet with Mp=3.5MJup and a disc with Mdust=9.6⋅10−5M⊙. Starting from this result, we also compute the expected signature of the planet in the gas kinematics, as traced by CO emission. We find that such a signature (in the form of a "kink" in the channel maps) could be observed by ALMA with a velocity resolution between 0.2−0.5kms−1 and a beam size between 30 and 50 mas[/quote] | |
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