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The Gray Needle: Large Grains in the HD 15115 Debris Disk from LBT/PISCES/Ks and LBTI/LMIRcam/L′ Adaptive Optics Imaging

  • Authors: Timothy J. Rodigas, Philip M. Hinz, Jarron Leisenring, Vidhya Vaitheeswaran, Andrew J. Skemer, Michael Skrutskie, Kate Y. L. Su, Vanessa Bailey, Glenn Schneider, Laird Close, Filippo Mannucci, Simone Esposito, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Enrico Pinna, Javier Argomedo, Guido Agapito, Daniel Apai, Giuseppe Bono, Kostantina Boutsia, Runa Briguglio, Guido Brusa, Lorenzo Busoni, Giovanni Cresci, Thayne Currie, Silvano Desidera, Josh Eisner, Renato Falomo, Luca Fini, Kate Follette, Adriano Fontana, Peter Garnavich, Raffaele Gratton, Richard Green, Juan Carlos Guerra, J. M. Hill, William F. Hoffmann, Terry J. Jones, Megan Krejny, Craig Kulesa, Jared Males, Elena Masciadri, Dino Mesa, Don McCarthy, Michael Meyer, Doug Miller, Matthew J. Nelson, Alfio Puglisi, Fernando Quiros-Pacheco, Armando Riccardi, Eleonora Sani, Paolo Stefanini, Vincenzo Testa, John Wilson, Charles E. Woodward, and Marco Xompero

Rodigas et al. 2012 The Astrophysical Journal 752 57.

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Caption: Figure 7.

(a) Rotated model and real Ks-band disk images. The model image has an inclination of 87°, scattering parameter g = 0.5, 3 μm grains, an SB power-law index of −3/2, and a gap from 0 to 1 farcs1. The model image has been convolved with the PSF from the photometric image of HBC 388, and Gaussian noise has been added. Units are in mJy arcsec −2 for both images. The white dot marks the location of the star in both images. The dashed lines are meant to guide the eye to the apparent northern offset of the disk relative to the star. (b) P.A. vs. stellocentric distance for the western side of the disk in the model image. The P.A. increases closer to the star due to the apparent bow shape, similar to what is seen for the real data shown in Figure 4(b).

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