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RESOLVING THE HD 100546 PROTOPLANETARY SYSTEM WITH THE GEMINI PLANET IMAGER: EVIDENCE FOR MULTIPLE FORMING, ACCRETING PLANETS

  • Authors: Thayne Currie, Ryan Cloutier, Sean Brittain, Carol Grady, Adam Burrows, Takayuki Muto, Scott J. Kenyon, and Marc J. Kuchner

2015 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 814 L27.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

(left) PI surface brightness profile of the HD 100546 disk computed in 10° wedges as in Avenhaus et al. (2014). (right) Close-up of final IFS image showing the region around HD 100546 b and the subtraction of HD 100546 b assuming point source and 2 or 4 pixel wide extended sources. The background disk emission covers a circular region (dotted circle).

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