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| Name |
Watanabe Makoto |
| Belonging department |
Physics |
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B000222325 |
| researchmap agency |
Okayama University of Science |
Near-infrared Imaging Polarimetry of Inner Region of GG Tau A Disk
Yi Yang, Jun Hashimoto, Saeko S. Hayashi, Motohide Tamura, Satoshi Mayama, Roman Rafikov, Eiji Akiyama, Joseph C. Carson, Markus Janson, Jungmi Kwon, Jerome de Leon, Daehyeon Oh, Michihiro Takami, Ya-wen Tang, Tomoyuki Kudo, Nobuhiko Kusakabe, Lyu Abe, Wolfgang Brandner, Timothy D. Brandt, Sebastian Egner, Markus Feldt, Miwa Goto, Carol A. Grady, Olivier Guyon, Yutaka Hayano, Masahiko Hayashi, Thomas Henning, Klaus W. Hodapp, Miki Ishii, Masanori Iye, Ryo Kandori, Gillian R. Knapp, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Taro Matsuo, Michael W. Mcelwain, Shoken Miyama, Jun-Ichi Morino, Amaya Moro-martin, Tetsuo Nishimura, Tae-Soo Pyo, Eugene Serabyn, Takuya Suenaga, Hiroshi Suto, Ryuji Suzuki, Yasuhiro H. Takahashi, Naruhisa Takato, Hiroshi Terada, Christian Thalmann, Edwin L. Turner, Makoto Watanabe, John Wisniewski, Toru Yamada, Hideki Takami, Tomonori Usuda
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By performing non-masked polarization imaging with Subaru/HiCIAO, polarized scattered light from the inner region of the disk around the GG Tau A system was successfully detected in the H band, with a spatial resolution of approximately 0.″07, revealing the complicated inner disk structures around this young binary. This paper reports the observation of an arc-like structure to the north of GG Tau Ab, and part of a circumstellar structure that is noticeable around GG Tau Aa, extending to a distance of approximately 28 au from the primary star. The speckle noise around GG Tau Ab constrains its disk radius to < 13 au. Based on the size of the circumbinary ring and the circumstellar disk around GG Tau Aa, the semimajor axis of the binary’s orbit is likely to be 62 au. A comparison of the present observations with previous Atacama Large Millimeter Array and near-infrared H2 emission observations suggests that the north arc could be part of a large streamer flowing from the circumbinary ring to sustain the circumstellar disks. According to the previous studies, the circumstellar disk around GG Tau Aa has enough mass and can sustain itself for a duration sufficient for planet formation; thus, our study indicates that planets can form within close (separation ≲ 100 au) young binary systems.
American Astronomical Society
Research papers (academic journals)
10.3847/1538-3881/153/1/7
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