POLARIMETRIC IMAGING OF LARGE CAVITY STRUCTURES IN THE PRE-TRANSITIONAL PROTOPLANETARY DISK AROUND PDS 70: OBSERVATIONS OF THE DISK

We present high-resolution H-band polarized intensity (FWHM = 01: 14 AU) and L'-band imaging data (FWHM = 011: 15 AU) of the circumstellar disk around the weak-lined T Tauri star PDS 70 in Centaurus at a radial distance of 28 AU (02) up to 210 AU (15). In both images, a giant inner gap is clearly resolved for the first time, and the radius of the gap is ~70 AU. Our data show that the geometric center of the disk shifts by ~6 AU toward the minor axis. We confirm that the brown dwarf companion candidate to the north of PDS 70 is a background star based on its proper motion. As a result of spectral energy distribution fitting by Monte Carlo radiative transfer modeling, we infer the existence of an optically thick inner disk at a few AU. Combining our observations and modeling, we classify the disk of PDS 70 as a pre-transitional disk. Furthermore, based on the analysis of L'-band imaging data, we put an upper limit of ~30 to ~50 M J on the mass of companions within the gap. Taking into account the presence of the large and sharp gap, we suggest that the gap could be formed by dynamical interactions of sub-stellar companions or multiple unseen giant planets in the gap.

Olivier Guyon | Yutaka Hayano | Taro Matsuo | Timothy D. Brandt | Edwin L. Turner | Masayuki Kuzuhara | Miki Ishii | Masanori Iye | Markus Janson | Ryo Kandori | Jun-Ichi Morino | Hiroshi Suto | Tae-Soo Pyo | Hideki Takami | Sebastian Egner | Hiroshi Terada | Nobuhiko Kusakabe | Motohide Tamura | Ryuji Suzuki | Wolfgang Brandner | Tomonori Usuda | Michael McElwain | G. Serabyn | Toru Yamada | Makoto Watanabe | Jun Hashimoto | Lyu Abe | Timothy Brandt | John Wisniewski | Naruhisa Takato | Markus Feldt | Masao Hayashi | Ruobing Dong | Michihiro Takami | Jungmi Kwon | J. Carson | Christian Thalmann | Misato Fukagawa | Miwa Goto | Klaus Hodapp | Gillian Knapp | Shoken Miyama | Carol Anne Grady | Amaya Moro-Martin | Tomoyuki Kudo | J. Wisniewski | L. Abe | M. Tamura | K. Hodapp | A. Moro-martin | O. Guyon | T. Matsuo | M. McElwain | T. Henning | W. Brandner | M. Feldt | C. Thalmann | M. Janson | E. Turner | G. Knapp | S. Egner | Toru Yamada | S. Miyama | H. Suto | M. Kuzuhara | T. Kudo | N. Kusakabe | R. Dong | Y. Hayano | N. Takato | J. Morino | J. Kwon | J. Hashimoto | R. Kandori | Makoto Watanabe | M. Iye | M. Hayashi | T. Usuda | Y. Takahashi | C. Grady | R. Suzuki | D. Tomono | H. Takami | T. Pyo | H. Terada | M. Goto | T. Nishimura | M. Takami | M. Ishii | J. Carson | M. Fukagawa | S. Hayashi | T. Suenaga | Daigo Tomono | Thomas Henning | Z. Zhu | Y. H. Takahashi | Saeko Hayashi | T. Muto | M. Honda | Z. Zhu | T. Muto | G. Serabyn | S. Mayama | M. McClure | Takuya Suenaga | M. Honda | M. McClure | Satoshi Mayama | T. Nishimura | A. Moro-Martin | Z. Zhu

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