A Comparative Anatomy of Dusty Disks Imaged by NICMOS
| Autor: | Idt Eons Team, Alycia J. Weinberger, M. D. Silverstone, Dean C. Hines, Glenn Schneider |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Physics
Brightness Infrared Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics Radius Photometry (astronomy) Stars Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Circumstellar dust Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Planetary mass Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics Main sequence |
| Zdroj: | Symposium - International Astronomical Union. 202:308-315 |
| ISSN: | 0074-1809 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s007418090021810x |
| Popis: | Using the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) on the Hubble Space Telescope we have conducted a coronagraphic imaging survey of 18 main sequence stars with large infrared excesses, searching for circumstellar dust (debris) in scattered light. Dusty disks with radial and hemispheric brightness anisotropies and complex morphologies, both possibly indicative of dynamical interactions with unseen planetary mass companions, were spatially resolved and imaged around three young (≲ 10Myr old) stars. From these observations we describe the debris systems around: a) HR 4796A (A0V), a 70 AU radius ring less than 14 AU wide with unequal ansal flux densities; b) HD 141569A (Herbig Ae/Be), a 400 AU radius disk with a 40 AU wide gap; and c) TW Hya (K7 T-Tauri), a pole-on circularly symmetric disk with a radial break in its surface density of scattering particles. Additionally, our non-detection of scattered light and high precision photometry of a fourth system of similar age, HD 98800 A/B, coupled with mid and thermal IR measurements, greatly constrain a likely model for the debris about the B component. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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