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Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS): A Circumplanetary Disk Candidate in Molecular-line Emission in the AS 209 Disk

  • Authors: Jaehan Bae, Richard Teague, Sean M. Andrews, Myriam Benisty, Stefano Facchini, Maria Galloway-Sprietsma, Ryan A. Loomis, Yuri Aikawa, Felipe Alarcón, Edwin Bergin, Jennifer B. Bergner, Alice S. Booth, Gianni Cataldi, L. Ilsedore Cleeves, Ian Czekala, Viviana V. Guzmán, Jane Huang, John D. Ilee, Nicolas T. Kurtovic, Charles J. Law, Romane Le Gal, Yao Liu, Feng Long, François Ménard, Karin I. Öberg, Laura M. Pérez, Chunhua Qi, Kamber R. Schwarz, Anibal Sierra, Catherine Walsh, David J. Wilner, Ke Zhang

Jaehan Bae et al 2022 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 934 .

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Caption: Figure 5.

A summary figure showing the coincidence of the CPD candidate with the 12CO/scattered-light gap and 12CO velocity kink. (a) Radial profiles of the normalized (black) 12CO integrated intensity and (red) the near-infrared scattered light (from Avenhaus et al. 2018; scaled by r 2 to account for the drop in the incident stellar photons). The shaded region shows 1.″4–2.″0, the approximate radial location of the 12CO gap. (b) Radial profile of the normalized 13CO integrated intensity along the azimuthal location of the CPD (see Figure 3). (c) 12CO channel map at 4.8 km s−1. The location of the 12CO gap is shown with the gray dashed ellipses. Black contours show the dust continuum from Andrews et al. (2018). (d) A zoom-in of the blue box in panel (c), showing the velocity kink in 12CO (background color map) within the 12CO gap (black dashed curves). The blue contours show 13CO emission at 10σ and 15σ levels. Note that the CPD candidate is located at the center of the 12CO gap and coincides with the velocity kink in 12CO, highly suggestive of the presence of an embedded planet. The synthesized beams for 12CO and 13CO data are shown in the lower-left and lower-right corners of the panel, respectively.

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