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在太阳系尺度上寻找气体巨行星:碎片盘宿主星HD172555和HD115892的VLT NACO/APP观测

Searching for Gas Giant Planets on Solar System Scales: VLT NACO/APP Observations of the Debris Disk Host Stars HD172555 and HD115892

Sascha P. Quanz, Matthew A. Kenworthy, Michael R. Meyer, Julien H. V. Girard, Markus Kasper

摘要:

利用VLT/NACO的APP日冕仪,我们在4微米的热红外波段搜索了HD 115892和HD 172555周围的行星质量伴星。这两个物体都具有与其年龄相当的异常发光的碎片盘,有人认为小尘埃颗粒是最近在瞬态事件中产生的(例如,冲突)在这些系统中。这样的微行星或原行星碰撞可能是由尚未发现的同伴动态触发的。我们没有在我们的图像中检测到任何伴星,但得出了以下检测极限:对于这两个物体,我们将检测到伴星,其视星等在~13.2-14.1等之间,角间距在0.4- 1.0”之间,在5西格玛水平。对于HD 115892,我们对12.1 mag的伴发物敏感,即使在0.3”。使用理论模型,这些量值被转换成质量极限。对于HD 115892,我们将检测到角间距在0.4-1.0”(7-18 AU)之间的10-15 M_Jup的物体。在0.3”(~5.5 AU)处,检测限为~25 M_Jup。对于HD 172555,我们在0.5-1.0”(15-29 AU)之间的分离处达到2-3 M_Jup的检测限。在0.4”(~11 AU)处,检测限为~4 M_Jup。尽管没有检测到,我们的数据证明了NACO/APP在非常小的内部工作角下在热红外中的前所未有的对比度性能,并且我们表明我们的观察结果在分离>0.5”时主要是背景限制的。

英文摘要:

Using the APP coronagraph of VLT/NACO we searched for planetary mass companions around HD115892 and HD172555 in the thermal infrared at 4 micron. Both objects harbor unusually luminous debris disks for their age and it has been suggested that small dust grains were produced recently in transient events (e.g., a collision) in these systems. Such a collision of planetesimals or protoplanets could have been dynamically triggered by yet unseen companions. We did not detect any companions in our images but derived the following detection limits: For both objects we would have detected companions with apparent magnitudes between ~13.2-14.1 mag at angular separations between 0.4- 1.0" at the 5-sigma level. For HD115892 we were sensitive to companions with 12.1 mag even at 0.3". Using theoretical models these magnitudes are converted into mass limits. For HD115892 we would have detected objects with 10-15 M_Jup at angular separations between 0.4-1.0" (7-18 AU). At 0.3" (~5.5 AU) the detection limit was ~25 M_Jup. For HD172555 we reached detection limits between 2-3 M_Jup at separations between 0.5-1.0" (15-29 AU). At 0.4" (~11 AU) the detection limit was ~4 M_Jup. Despite the non-detections our data demonstrate the unprecedented contrast performance of NACO/APP in the thermal infrared at very small inner working angles and we show that our observations are mostly background limited at separation >0.5".

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