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The Influence of Tight Binaries on Protoplanetary Disk Masses

  • Authors: Kevin Flaherty, Peter Knowlton, Tasan Smith-Gandy, A. Meredith Hughes, Marina Kounkel, Eric Jensen, James Muzerolle, Kevin Covey

Kevin Flaherty et al 2025 The Astronomical Journal 170 .

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Caption: Figure 8.

Top: dust mass as a function of projected distance from θ1 Ori C for the tight binaries studied here (black points), ONC targets (green points, J. A. Eisner et al. 2018), and targets from across the Orion cloud (red points, S. E. van Terwisga et al. 2022). The vast majority of the tight binaries fall beyond the region within 0.1 pc that J. A. Eisner et al. (2018) identified as being affected by external photoevaporation. Bottom: disk dust mass distributions comparing tight binaries within 1 pc of θ1 Ori C and more distant sources. Sources close to θ1 Ori C show slightly higher masses, most likely due to the diminished sensitivity in a region with higher background emission; triangles indicate average upper limits for the corresponding samples.

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