MAGELLAN AO SYSTEM z′, y S, and L′ OBSERVATIONS of the VERY WIDE 650 AU HD 106906 PLANETARY SYSTEM

  • Ya Lin Wu
  • , Laird M. Close
  • , Vanessa P. Bailey
  • , Timothy J. Rodigas
  • , Jared R. Males
  • , Katie M. Morzinski
  • , Katherine B. Follette
  • , Philip M. Hinz
  • , Alfio Puglisi
  • , Runa Briguglio
  • , Marco Xompero

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Abstract

We analyze archival data from Bailey and co-workers from the Magellan adaptive optics system and present the first 0.9 μm detection (z′ = 20.3 ±0.4 mag; Δz′ = 13.0 ±0.4 mag) of the 11 M Jup circumbinary planet HD 106906AB b, as well as 1 and 3.8 μm detections of the debris disk around the binary. The disk has an east-west asymmetry in length and surface brightness, especially at 3.8 μm where the disk appears to be one-sided. The spectral energy distribution of b, when scaled to the K S-band photometry, is consistent with 1800 K atmospheric models without significant dust reddening, unlike some young, very red, low-mass companions such as CT Cha B and 1RXS 1609 B. Therefore, the suggested circumplanetary disk of Kalas and co-workers might not contain much material, or might be closer to face-on. Finally, we suggest that the widest (a 100 AU) low mass ratio (M p/M ≡ q ≲ 0.01) companions may have formed inside protoplanetary disks but were later scattered by binary/planet interactions. Such a scattering event may have occurred for HD 106906AB b with its central binary star, but definitive proof at this time is elusive.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number24
JournalAstrophysical Journal
Volume823
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - May 20 2016

Keywords

  • circumstellar matter
  • instrumentation: adaptive optics
  • planets and satellites: individual (HD 106906AB b)
  • stars: individual (HD 106906AB)
  • techniques: high angular resolution

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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