Pyerin, MA;
Delage, TN;
Kurtovic, NT;
Gárate, M;
Henning, T;
Pinilla, P;
(2021)
Constraining the properties of the potential embedded planets in the disk around HD 100546.
Astronomy & Astrophysics
, 656
, Article A150. 10.1051/0004-6361/202141998.
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Abstract
Context. The protoplanetary disk around the star HD 100546 displays prominent substructures in the form of two concentric rings. Recent observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) have revealed these features with high angular resolution and have resolved the faint outer ring well. This allows us to study the nature of the system further. / Aims. Our aim is to constrain some of the properties of potential planets embedded in the disk, assuming that they induce the observed rings and gaps. / Methods. We present the self-calibrated 0.9 mm ALMA observations of the dust continuum emission from the circumstellar disk around HD 100546. These observations reveal substructures in the disk that are consistent with two rings, the outer ring being much fainter than the inner one. We reproduced this appearance closely with a numerical model that assumes two embedded planets. We varied planet and disk parameters in the framework of the planet-disk interaction code FARGO3D and used the outputs for the gas and dust distribution to generate synthetic observations with the code RADMC-3D. / Results. From this comparison, we find that an inner planet located at r1 = 13 au with a mass M1 = 8 MJup and an outer planet located at r2 = 143 au with a mass M2 = 3 MJup leads to the best agreement between synthetic and ALMA observations (deviation less than 3σ for the normalized radial profiles). To match the very low brightness of the outer structure relative to the inner ring, the initial disk gas surface density profile needs to follow an exponentially tapered power law (self-similar solution), rather than a simple power-law profile.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Constraining the properties of the potential embedded planets in the disk around HD 100546 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1051/0004-6361/202141998 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141998 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © M. Ackermann Pyerin et al. 2021. Open Access article, published by EDP Sciences, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | protoplanetary disks; methods: numerical; submillimeter: planetary systems; planets and satellites: formation; planet-disk interactions |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10153961 |
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