Early science with the Large Millimetre Telescope: Deep LMT/AzTEC millimetre observations of ϵ Eridani and its surroundings
| Autor: | F. Cruz-Saenz de Miera, G. W. Wilson, Susana Lizano, Jorge A. Zavala, Alfredo Montaña, M. Chavez-Dagostino, Jonathan P. Marshall, David Sánchez-Arguelles, Iván Rodríguez-Montoya, Olga Vega, Carlos Eiroa, Min S. Yun, Emanuele Bertone, W. R. F. Dent, Grant M. Kennedy, F. P. Schloerb, Arturo I. Gómez-Ruiz, Milagros Zeballos, Jane Greaves, R. López-Valdivia, M. Olmedo, David H. Hughes, V. De la Luz, Eric E. Mamajek |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Solar System
media_common.quotation_subject Flux Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics 01 natural sciences law.invention Telescope law Planet 0103 physical sciences Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Eccentricity (behavior) 010303 astronomy & astrophysics QC Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics QB media_common Physics Photosphere 010308 nuclear & particles physics Astronomy Astronomy and Astrophysics Galaxy Space and Planetary Science Millimeter Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
| Zdroj: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 462:2285-2294 |
| ISSN: | 1365-2966 0035-8711 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stw1363 |
| Popis: | ǫ Eridani is a nearby, young Sun-like star that hosts a ring of cool debris analogous\ud to the solar system’s Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. Early observations at (sub-)mm wave-\ud lengths gave tentative evidence of the presence of inhomogeneities in the ring, which\ud have been ascribed to the effect of a putative low eccentricity planet, orbiting close to\ud the ring. The existence of these structures have been recently challenged by high resolution interferometric millimeter observations. Here we present the deepest single-dish\ud image of ǫ Eridani at millimeter wavelengths, obtained with the Large Millimeter Tele-\ud scope Alfonso Serrano (LMT). The main goal of these LMT observations is to confirm\ud (or refute) the presence of non-axisymmetric structure in the disk. The dusty ring is\ud detected for the first time along its full projected elliptical shape. The radial extent of\ud the ring is not spatially resolved and shows no evidence, to within the uncertainties, of\ud dust density enhancements. Additional features of the 1.1 mm map are: (i) the pres-\ud ence of significant flux in the gap between the ring and the star, probably providing\ud the first exo-solar evidence of Poynting-Robertson drag, (ii) an unambiguous detection\ud of emission at the stellar position with a flux significantly above that expected from\ud ǫ Eridani’s photosphere, and (iii) the identification of numerous unresolved sources\ud which could correspond to background dusty star-forming galaxies. |
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