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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Imaging protoplanets: observing transition disks with non-redundant masking

Sallum, Steph, Eisner, Josh, Close, Laird M., Hinz, Philip M., Follette, Katherine B., Kratter, Kaitlin, Skemer, Andrew J., Bailey, Vanessa P., Briguglio, Runa, Defrere, Denis, Macintosh, Bruce A., Males, Jared R., Morzinski, Katie M., Puglisi, Alfio T., Rodigas, Timothy J., Spalding, Eckhart, Tuthill, Peter G., Vaz, Amali, Weinberger, Alycia, Xomperio, Marco 04 August 2016 (has links)
Transition disks, protoplanetary disks with inner clearings, are promising objects in which to directly image forming planets. The high contrast imaging technique of non-redundant masking is well posed to detect planetary mass companions at several to tens of AU in nearby transition disks. We present non-redundant masking observations of the T Cha and LkCa 15 transition disks, both of which host posited sub-stellar mass companions. However, due to a loss of information intrinsic to the technique, observations of extended sources (e.g. scattered light from disks) can be misinterpreted as moving companions. We discuss tests to distinguish between these two scenarios, with applications to the T Cha and LkCa 15 observations. We argue that a static, forward-scattering disk can explain the T Cha data, while LkCa 15 is best explained by multiple orbiting companions.

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