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 A Circumplanetary Disk Candidate at AS 209

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PostSubject: A Circumplanetary Disk Candidate at AS 209   A Circumplanetary Disk Candidate at AS 209 Empty14th July 2022, 8:52 am

Found the disk before the planet and rather massive too. Call it "the Ring"...  What a Face

Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). A Circumplanetary Disk Candidate in Molecular Line Emission in the AS 209 Disk
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We report the discovery of a circumplanetary disk (CPD) candidate embedded in the circumstellar disk of the T Tauri star AS 209 at a radial distance of about 200 au (on-sky separation of 1."4 from the star at a position angle of 161°), isolated via 13CO J=2-1 emission. This is the first instance of CPD detection via gaseous emission capable of tracing the overall CPD mass. The CPD is spatially unresolved with a 117×82 mas beam and manifests as a point source in 13CO, indicating that its diameter is ≲14 au. The CPD is embedded within an annular gap in the circumstellar disk previously identified using 12CO and near-infrared scattered light observations, and is associated with localized velocity perturbations in 12CO. The coincidence of these features suggests that they have a common origin: an embedded giant planet. We use the 13CO intensity to constrain the CPD gas temperature and mass. We find that the CPD temperature is ≳35 K, higher than the circumstellar disk temperature at the radial location of the CPD, 22 K, suggesting that heating sources localized to the CPD must be present. The CPD gas mass is ≳0.095MJup≃30MEarth adopting a standard 13CO abundance. From the non-detection of millimeter continuum emission at the location of the CPD (3σ flux density ≲26.4 μJy), we infer that the CPD dust mass is ≲0.027MEarth≃2.2 lunar masses, indicating a low dust-to-gas mass ratio of ≲9×10-4. We discuss the formation mechanism of the CPD-hosting giant planet on a wide orbit in the framework of gravitational instability and pebble accretion.

Seriously, besides the disk could it be that a "binary planet" is hiding out there?
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