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First Scattered-light Images of the Gas-rich Debris Disk around 49 Ceti
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Choquet, É.Milli, Julien
Wahhaj, Zahed
Soummer, Remi
Roberge, A.
Augereau, Jean-Charles
Booth, Mark
Absil, O.
Boccaletti, Anthony
Chen, Christine H.
Debes, John H.
Burgo, Carlos del
Dent, William R. F.
Ertel, Steve
Girard, Julien H.
Gofas-Salas, Elena
Golimowski, David A.
González, Carlos A. Gómez
Hagan, J. Brendan
Hibon, Pascale
Hines, Dean C.
Kennedy, Grant M.
Lagrange, Anne-Marie
Matrà, Luca
Mawet, Dimitri
Mouillet, David
N’Diaye, Mamadou
Perrin, Marshall
Pinte, Christophe
Pueyo, Laurent
Rajan, Abhijith
Schneider, Glenn
Wolff, Schuyler
Wyatt, Mark C.
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Univ Arizona, Dept Astron, Steward ObservIssue Date
2017-01-09
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First Scattered-light Images of the Gas-rich Debris Disk around 49 Ceti 2017, 834 (2):L12 The Astrophysical JournalJournal
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We present the first scattered-light images of the debris disk around 49 Ceti, a similar to 40 Myr A1 main-sequence star at 59 pc, famous for hosting two massive dust belts as well as large quantities of atomic and molecular gas. The outer disk is revealed in reprocessed archival Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS-F110W images, as well as new coronagraphic H-band images from the Very Large Telescope SPHERE instrument. The disk extends from 1 1 (65 au) to 4.'' 6 (250 au) and is seen at an inclination of 73 degrees, which refines previous measurements at lower angular resolution. We also report no companion detection larger than 3 M-Jup at projected separations beyond 20 au from the star (0.'' 34). Comparison between the F110W and H-band images is consistent with a gray color of 49 Ceti's dust, indicating grains larger than greater than or similar to 2 mu m. Our photometric measurements indicate a scattering efficiency/infrared excess ratio of 0.2-0.4, relatively low compared to other characterized debris disks. We find that 49 Ceti presents morphological and scattering properties very similar to the gas-rich HD 131835 system. From our constraint on the disk inclination we find that the atomic gas previously detected in absorption must extend to the inner disk, and that the latter must be depleted of CO gas. Building on previous studies, we propose a schematic view of the system describing the dust and gas structure around 49 Ceti and hypothetical scenarios for the gas nature and origin.ISSN
2041-8213Version
Final published versionSponsors
NASA through Hubble Fellowship - STScI [HST-HF2-51355]; AURA, Inc. [NAS5-26555]; ESO through the ESO fellowship program; DFG [Kr 2164/15-1]; Mexican CONACyT [CB-2012-183007]; STFC; Programme National de Plane-tologie; European Union through ERC [337569, 279973]; [HST-AR-12652]Additional Links
http://stacks.iop.org/2041-8205/834/i=2/a=L12?key=crossref.5217b5021dedcd12369c5a9adb87b03fae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3847/2041-8213/834/2/L12