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2015ApJ...814L..27C - Astrophys. J., 814, L27 (2015/December-1)

Resolving the HD 100546 protoplanetary system with the Gemini planet imager: evidence for multiple forming, accreting planets.

CURRIE T., CLOUTIER R., BRITTAIN S., GRADY C., BURROWS A., MUTO T., KENYON S.J. and KUCHNER M.J.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report Gemini Planet Imager H-band high-contrast imaging/integral field spectroscopy and polarimetry of the HD 100546, a 10 Myr old early-type star recently confirmed to host a thermal infrared (IR) bright (super-)Jovian protoplanet at wide separation, HD 100546 b. We resolve the inner disk cavity in polarized light, recover the thermal IR-bright arm, and identify one additional spiral arm. We easily recover HD 100546 b and show that much of its emission plausibly originates from an unresolved point source. The point-source component of HD 100546 b has extremely red IR colors compared to field brown dwarfs, qualitatively similar to young cloudy super-Jovian planets; however, these colors may instead indicate that HD 100546 b is still accreting material from a circumplanetary disk. Additionally, we identify a second point-source-like peak at rproj∼ 14 AU, located just interior to or at the inner disk wall consistent with being a <10-20 MJ candidate second protoplanet–''HD 100546 c''–and lying within a weakly polarized region of the disk but along an extension of the thermal IR-bright spiral arm. Alternatively, it is equally plausible that this feature is a weakly polarized but locally bright region of the inner disk wall. Astrometric monitoring of this feature over the next 2 years and emission line measurements could confirm its status as a protoplanet, rotating disk hot spot that is possibly a signpost of a protoplanet, or a stationary emission source from within the disk.

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Journal keyword(s): planetary systems - stars: early-type - stars: individual: HD 100546

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