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12CO Rovibrational Spectroscopy of AB Aurigae—A Potential Point Source Is Present

  • Authors: Janus Kozdon, Jeffrey Fung, Sean D. Brittain, Stanley Jensen, Josh Kern, Cory Padgett, Yasuhiro Hasegawa

Janus Kozdon et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 171 .

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To fit the low-J transitions from Figure 4, two models are constructed to determine if the secondary components are differentiable. One is of a point source (Section 3.3.2) and the other is of a circumplanetary disk (Section 3.3.3). Though the differences are too small to be discernible in our analysis, we do see that, given a massive enough planet, the circumplanetary disk’s signature ends up being wider and having smaller amplitude.

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