Bayo, A, Joergens, V, Liu, Y et al. (12 more authors) (2017) First Millimeter Detection of the Disk around a Young, Isolated, Planetary-mass Object. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 841 (1). L11. ISSN 2041-8205
Abstract
OTS44 is one of only four free-floating planets known to have a disk. We have previously shown that it is the coolest and least massive known free-floating planet (~12 MJup) with a substantial disk that is actively accreting. We have obtained Band 6 (233 GHz) ALMA continuum data of this very young disk-bearing object. The data show a clear unresolved detection of the source. We obtained disk-mass estimates via empirical correlations derived for young, higher-mass, central (substellar) objects. The range of values obtained are between 0.07 and 0.63 M⊕ (dust masses). We compare the properties of this unique disk with those recently reported around higher-mass (brown dwarfs) young objects in order to infer constraints on its mechanism of formation. While extreme assumptions on dust temperature yield disk-mass values that could slightly diverge from the general trends found for more massive brown dwarfs, a range of sensible values provide disk masses compatible with a unique scaling relation between Mdust and M * through the substellar domain down to planetary masses.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017, The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | brown dwarfs; stars: formation; stars: low-mass; stars: pre-main sequence |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Physics and Astronomy (Leeds) > Astrophysics (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Nov 2018 12:03 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 21:35 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | American Astronomical Society |
Identification Number: | 10.3847/2041-8213/aa7046 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:138435 |