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PANCHROMATIC IMAGING OF A TRANSITIONAL DISK: THE DISK OF GM AUR IN OPTICAL AND FUV SCATTERED LIGHT

We have imaged GM Aurigae with the Hubble Space Telescope, detected its disk in scattered light at 1400 and 1650 angstrom, and compared these with observations at 3300 angstrom, 5550 angstrom, 1.1 mu m, and 1.6 mu m. The scattered light increases at shorter wavelengths. The radial surface brightness profile at 3300 angstrom shows no evidence of the 24 au radius cavity that has been previously observed in submillimeter observations. Comparison with dust grain opacity models indicates that. the surface of the entire disk is populated with submicron grains. We have compiled a. spectral energy distribution from 0.1 mu m to 1 mm. and used it to constrain a model of the star + disk system that includes the submillimeter cavity using the Monte Carlo radiative transfer code by Barbara Whitney. The best-fit model image indicates that the cavity should be detectable in the F330W bandpass if the cavity has been cleared of both large and small dust grains, but we do not detect it. The lack of an observed cavity can be explained by the presence of submicron grains interior to the submillimeter cavity wall. We suggest one explanation for this that. could be due to a planet of mass <9 M-J interior to 24 au. A unique cylindrical structure is detected in the far-UV data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys/ Solar Blind Channel. It is aligned along the system semiminor axis, but does not resemble an accretion-driven jet. The structure is limb. brightened and extends 190 +/- 35 au above the disk midplane. The inner radius of the limb. brightening is 40 +/- 10 au, just beyond the submillimeter cavity wall.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/621955
Date22 September 2016
CreatorsHornbeck, J. B., Swearingen, J. R., Grady, C. A., Williger, G. M., Brown, A., Sitko, M. L., Wisniewski, J. P., Perrin, M. D., Lauroesch, J. T., Schneider, G., Apai, D., Brittain, S., Brown, J. M., Champney, E. H., Hamaguchi, K., Henning, Th., Lynch, D. K., Petre, R., Russell, R. W., Walter, F. M., Woodgate, B.
ContributorsUniv Arizona, Steward Observ, Univ Arizona, Dept Planetary Sci, Univ Arizona, Lunar & Planetary Lab
PublisherIOP PUBLISHING LTD
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle
Rights© 2016. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Relationhttp://stacks.iop.org/0004-637X/829/i=2/a=65?key=crossref.63a8c3c30b2b6d7f9da5f5790cc83641

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