First Resolved Scattered-light Images of Four Debris Disks in Scorpius-Centaurus with the Gemini Planet Imager

Justin Hom, Jennifer Patience, Thomas M. Esposito, Gaspard Duchene, Kadin Worthen, Paul Kalas, Hannah Jang-Condell, Kezman Saboi, Pauline Arriaga, Johan Mazoyer, Schuyler Wolff, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Marshall D. Perrin, Christine H. Chen, Bruce MacIntosh, Brenda C. Matthews, Jason J. Wang, James R. Graham, Franck MarchisS. Mark Ammons, Vanessa P. Bailey, Travis Barman, Joanna Bulger, Jeffrey K. Chilcote, Tara Cotten, Robert J. De Rosa, René Doyon, Katherine B. Follette, Steven Goodsell, Alexandra Z. Greenbaum, Pascale Hibon, Patrick Ingraham, Quinn Konopacky, James E. Larkin, Jerome Maire, Mark S. Marley, Christian Marois, Elisabeth Matthews, Stanimir Metchev, Eric L. Nielsen, Rebecca Oppenheimer, David Palmer, Lisa A. Poyneer, Laurent Pueyo, Abhijith Rajan, Julien Rameau, Fredrik T. Rantakyrö, Bin Ren, Dmitry Savransky, Adam Schneider, Anand Sivaramakrishnan, Inseok Song, Rémi Soummer, Melisa Tallis, Sandrine Thomas, J. Kent Wallace, Kimberly Ward-Duong, Sloane J. Wiktorowicz, Ben Zuckerman

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Abstract

We present the first spatially resolved scattered-light images of four debris disks around members of the Scorpius-Centaurus (Sco-Cen) OB association with high-contrast imaging and polarimetry using the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI). All four disks are resolved for the first time in polarized light, and one disk is also detected in total intensity. The three disks imaged around HD 111161, HD 143675, and HD 145560 are symmetric in both morphology and brightness distribution. The three systems span a range of inclinations and radial extents. The disk imaged around HD 98363 shows indications of asymmetries in morphology and brightness distribution, with some structural similarities to the HD 106906 planet-disk system. Uniquely, HD 98363 has a wide comoving stellar companion, Wray 15-788, with a recently resolved disk with very different morphological properties. HD 98363 A/B is the first binary debris disk system with two spatially resolved disks. All four targets have been observed with ALMA, and their continuum fluxes range from one nondetection to one of the brightest disks in the region. With the new results, a total of 15 A/F stars in Sco-Cen have resolved scattered-light debris disks, and approximately half of these systems exhibit some form of asymmetry. Combining the GPI disk structure results with information from the literature on millimeter fluxes and imaged planets reveals a diversity of disk properties in this young population. Overall, the four newly resolved disks contribute to the census of disk structures measured around A/F stars at this important stage in the development of planetary systems.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article numberab5af2
JournalAstronomical Journal
Volume159
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2020

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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