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2018MNRAS.475L..62H - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 475, L62-L66 (2018)

A likely planet-induced gap in the disc around T Cha.

HENDLER N.P., PINILLA P., PASCUCCI I., POHL A., MULDERS G., HENNING T., DONG R., CLARKE C., OWEN J. and HOLLENBACH D.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present high-resolution (0.11 x 0.06 arcsec2) 3 mm ALMA observations of the highly inclined transition disc around the star T Cha. Our continuum image reveals multiple dust structures: an inner disc, a spatially resolved dust gap, and an outer ring. When fitting sky-brightness models to the real component of the 3 mm visibilities, we infer that the inner emission is compact (<=1 au in radius), the gap width is between 18 and 28 au, and the emission from the outer ring peaks at ∼36 au. We compare our ALMA image with previously published 1.6 µm VLT/SPHERE imagery. This comparison reveals that the location of the outer ring is wavelength dependent. More specifically, the peak emission of the 3 mm ring is at a larger radial distance than that of the 1.6 µm ring, suggesting that millimeter-sized grains in the outer disc are located farther away from the central star than micron-sized grains. We discuss different scenarios to explain our findings, including dead zones, star-driven photoevaporation, and planet-disc interactions. We find that the most likely origin of the dust gap is from an embedded planet, and estimate - for a single planet scenario - that T Cha's gap is carved by a 1.2MJup planet.

Abstract Copyright: © 2017 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): planets and satellites: detection - planets and satellites: formation - planet-disc interactions - protoplanetary discs - circumstellar matter

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