The Debris Disk Around Hr 8799

Su, K. Y. L.; Rieke, G. H.; Stapelfeldt, K.; Malhotra, Renu; Bryden, G.; Smith, Paul S.; Misselt, K. A.; Moro‐Martín, Amaya; Williams, Jonathan P.

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“…Our motivation for exploring non-coplanar orbits for the planets in Esposito et al (2013) and this work is to complement the available studies, which assume coplanarity. It is also suggested by asteroseismology studies that indicate that the star has a more edge-on inclination (≥40 • , Wright et al 2011) with respect to the planes of the planet orbits and of the disk (Su et al 2009). A recent analysis of the MOST photometric data of the star (Sódor et al 2014) does not give clear evidence of rotational splitting of the modes, which would imply a stellar inclination similar to those of the planes of the planet orbits and of the disk.…”

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“…The range will be shifted towards higher masses when assuming older ages. However, constraints from the stellar properties (Marois et al 2008;Baines et al 2012), the mass of the disk (Su et al 2009), and models of dynamical stability of the four planets (Esposito et al 2013;Goździewski & Migaszewski 2014) suggest that the system is young. Other hints for small radii or low masses of the planets come from the fitting of their spectral energy distribution (e.g., Marois et al 2008;Bowler et al 2010;Currie et al 2011;Barman et al 2011;Madhusudhan et al 2011;Galicher et al 2011;Ingraham et al 2014), although there are uncertainties on the atmospheric composition and the physical processes governing their atmospheres assumed for the models (e.g., solar/non-solar metallicity, physics of the clouds, non-equilibrium chemistry).…”

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The LEECH Exoplanet Imaging Survey. Further constraints on the planet architecture of the HR 8799 system

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Context. Astrometric monitoring of directly imaged exoplanets allows the study of their orbital parameters and system architectures. Because most directly imaged planets have long orbital periods (>20 AU), accurate astrometry is challenging when based on data acquired on timescales of a few years and usually with different instruments. The LMIRCam camera on the Large Binocular Telescope is being used for the LBT Exozodi Exoplanet Common Hunt (LEECH) survey to search for and characterize young and adolescent exoplanets in L band (3.8 µm), including their system architectures. Aims. We first aim to provide a good astrometric calibration of LMIRCam. Then, we derive new astrometry, test the predictions of the orbital model of 8:4:2:1 mean motion resonance proposed for the system, and perform new orbital fitting of the HR 8799 bcde planets. We also present deep limits on a putative fifth planet inside the known planets. Methods. We use observations of HR 8799 and the Θ 1 Ori C field obtained during the same run in October 2013. Results. We first characterize the distortion of LMIRCam. We determine a platescale and a true north orientation for the images of 10.707 ± 0.012 mas/pix and −0.430 ± 0.076 • , respectively. The errors on the platescale and true north orientation translate into astrometric accuracies at a separation of 1 of 1.1 mas and 1.3 mas, respectively. The measurements for all planets agree within 3σ with a predicted ephemeris. The orbital fitting based on the new astrometric measurements favors an architecture for the planetary system based on 8:4:2:1 mean motion resonance. The detection limits allow us to exclude a fifth planet slightly brighter or more massive than HR 8799 b at the location of the 2:1 resonance with HR 8799 e (∼9.5 AU) and about twice as bright as HR 8799 cde at the location of the 3:1 resonance with HR 8799 e (∼7.5 AU).

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The LEECH Exoplanet Imaging Survey. Further constraints on the planet architecture of the HR 8799 system

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“…We did so by analogy with HR 8799 where such a halo was proposed (Su et al 2009). We used for the ring the best fit found in Sect.…”

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Belt(s) of debris resolved around the Sco-Cen star HIP 67497

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Aims. In 2015, we initiated a survey of Scorpius-Centaurus A-F stars that are predicted to host warm-inner and cold-outer belts of debris similar to the case of the system HR 8799. The survey aims to resolve the disks and detect planets responsible for the disk morphology. In this paper, we study the F-type star HIP 67497 and present a first-order modelization of the disk in order to derive its main properties. Methods. We used the near-infrared integral field spectrograph (IFS) and dual-band imager IRDIS of VLT/SPHERE to obtain angulardifferential imaging observations of the circumstellar environnement of HIP 67497. We removed the stellar halo with PCA and TLOCI algorithms. The disk emission was modeled with the GRaTeR code. Results. We resolve a ring-like structure that extends up to ∼450 mas (∼50 au) from the star in the IRDIS and IFS data. It is best reproduced by models of a non-eccentric ring with an inclination of 80 ± 1 • , a position angle of −93 ± 1 • , and a semi-major axis of 59 ± 3 au. We also detect an additional, but fainter, arc-like structure with a larger extension (0.65 arcsec) South of the ring that we model as a second belt of debris at ∼130 au. We detect ten candidate companions at separations ≥1 . We estimate the mass of putative perturbers responsible for the disk morphology and compare this to our detection limits. Additional data are needed to find those perturbers, and to relate our images to large-scale structures seen with HST/STIS.

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“…Their mass ratio with their host star and short projected separations (∼15-70 AU) distinguish them from the population of previously known planetary mass companions. The existence of a warm inner belt of debris and cold Kuiper belt bracketing the orbits of the planets (Su et al 2009;Hughes et al 2011;Matthews et al 2014;Contro et al 2015) indicates that the companions likely formed into a circumstellar disk.…”

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First light of the VLT planet finder SPHERE

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Context. The system of four planets discovered around the intermediate-mass star HR8799 offers a unique opportunity to test planet formation theories at large orbital radii and to probe the physics and chemistry at play in the atmospheres of self-luminous young (∼30 Myr) planets. We recently obtained new photometry of the four planets and low-resolution (R ∼ 30) spectra of HR8799 d and e with the SPHERE instrument (Paper III). Aims. In this paper (Paper IV), we aim to use these spectra and available photometry to determine how they compare to known objects, what the planet physical properties are, and how their atmospheres work. Methods. We compare the available spectra, photometry, and spectral energy distribution (SED) of the planets to field dwarfs and young companions. In addition, we use the extinction from corundum, silicate (enstatite and forsterite), or iron grains likely to form in the atmosphere of the planets to try to better understand empirically the peculiarity of their spectrophotometric properties. To conclude, we use three sets of atmospheric models (BT-SETTL14, Cloud-AE60, Exo-REM) to determine which ingredients are critically needed in the models to represent the SED of the objects, and to constrain their atmospheric parameters (T eff , log g, M/H). Results. We find that HR8799d and e properties are well reproduced by those of L6-L8 dusty dwarfs discovered in the field, among which some are candidate members of young nearby associations. No known object reproduces well the properties of planets b and c. Nevertheless, we find that the spectra and WISE photometry of peculiar and/or young early-T dwarfs reddened by submicron grains made of corundum, iron, enstatite, or forsterite successfully reproduce the SED of these planets. Our analysis confirms that only the Exo-REM models with thick clouds fit (within 2σ) the whole set of spectrophotometric datapoints available for HR8799 d and e for T eff = 1200 K, log g in the range 3.0−4.5, and M/H = +0.5. The models still fail to reproduce the SED of HR8799c and b. The determination of the metallicity, log g, and cloud thickness are degenerate. Conclusions. Our empirical analysis and atmospheric modelling show that an enhanced content in dust and decreased CIA of H 2 is certainly responsible for the deviation of the properties of the planet with respect to field dwarfs. The analysis suggests in addition that HR8799c and b have later spectral types than the two other planets, and therefore could both have lower masses.

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The Debris Disk Around Hr 8799

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The LEECH Exoplanet Imaging Survey. Further constraints on the planet architecture of the HR 8799 system

The LEECH Exoplanet Imaging Survey. Further constraints on the planet architecture of the HR 8799 system

Belt(s) of debris resolved around the Sco-Cen star HIP 67497

First light of the VLT planet finder SPHERE

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