We present a new analysis of multi-epoch, H-band, scattered light images of the AB Aur system. We use a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code to simultaneously model the system's spectral energy distribution (SED) and H-band polarized intensity (PI) imagery. We find that a disk-dominated model, as opposed to one that is envelope-dominated, can plausibly reproduce AB Aur's SED and near-IR imagery. This is consistent with previous modeling attempts presented in the literature and supports the idea that at least a subset of AB Aur's spirals originate within the disk. In light of this, we also analyzed the movement of spiral structures in multi-epoch H-band total light and PI imagery of the disk. We detect no significant rotation or change in spatial location of the spiral structures in these data, which span a 5.8-year baseline. If such structures are caused by disk-planet interactions, the lack of observed rotation constrains the location of the orbit of planetary perturbers to be >47 au.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/622048 |
| Date | 22 August 2016 |
| Creators | Lomax, Jamie R., Wisniewski, John P., Grady, Carol A., McElwain, Michael W., Hashimoto, Jun, Kudo, Tomoyuki, Kusakabe, Nobuhiko, Okamoto, Yoshiko K., Fukagawa, Misato, Abe, Lyu, Brandner, Wolfgang, Brandt, Timothy D., Carson, Joseph C., Currie, Thayne M, Egner, Sebastian, Feldt, Markus, Goto, Miwa, Guyon, Olivier, Hayano, Yutaka, Hayashi, Masahiko, Hayashi, Saeko S., Henning, Thomas, Hodapp, Klaus W., Inoue, Akio, Ishii, Miki, Iye, Masanori, Janson, Markus, Kandori, Ryo, Knapp, Gillian R., Kuzuhara, Masayuki, Kwon, Jungmi, Matsuo, Taro, Mayama, Satoshi, Miyama, Shoken, Momose, Munetake, Morino, Jun-Ichi, Moro-Martin, Amaya, Nishimura, Tetsuo, Pyo, Tae-Soo, Schneider, Glenn H, Serabyn, Eugene, Sitko, Michael L., Suenaga, Takuya, Suto, Hiroshi, Suzuki, Ryuji, Takahashi, Yasuhiro H., Takami, Michihiro, Takato, Naruhisa, Terada, Hiroshi, Thalmann, Christian, Tomono, Daigo, Turner, Edwin L., Watanabe, Makoto, Yamada, Toru, Takami, Hideki, Usuda, Tomonori, Tamura, Motohide |
| Contributors | Univ Arizona, Steward Observ |
| Publisher | IOP PUBLISHING LTD |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article |
| Rights | © 2016. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
| Relation | http://stacks.iop.org/0004-637X/828/i=1/a=2?key=crossref.3d2c6f18ef5537b557b848ddf53457b6 |
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