JWST-TST High Contrast: Asymmetries, dust populations and hints of a collision in the $β$ Pictoris disk with NIRCam and MIRI
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| author | Rebollido, Isabel Stark, Christopher C. Kammerer, Jens Perrin, Marshall D. Lawson, Kellen Pueyo, Laurent Chen, Christine Hines, Dean Girard, Julien H. Worthen, Kadin Ingerbretsen, Carl Betti, Sarah Clampin, Mark Golimowski, David Hoch, Kielan Lewis, Nikole K. Lu, Cicero X. van der Marel, Roeland P. Rickman, Emily Seager, Sara Soummer, Remi Valenti, Jeff A. Ward-Duong, Kimberly Mountain, C. Matt |
| author_facet | Rebollido, Isabel Stark, Christopher C. Kammerer, Jens Perrin, Marshall D. Lawson, Kellen Pueyo, Laurent Chen, Christine Hines, Dean Girard, Julien H. Worthen, Kadin Ingerbretsen, Carl Betti, Sarah Clampin, Mark Golimowski, David Hoch, Kielan Lewis, Nikole K. Lu, Cicero X. van der Marel, Roeland P. Rickman, Emily Seager, Sara Soummer, Remi Valenti, Jeff A. Ward-Duong, Kimberly Mountain, C. Matt |
| contents | We present the first JWST MIRI and NIRCam observations of the prominent debris disk around Beta Pictoris. Coronagraphic observations in 8 filters spanning from 1.8 to 23~$μ$m provide an unprecedentedly clear view of the disk at these wavelengths. The objectives of the observing program were to investigate the dust composition and distribution, and to investigate the presence of planets in the system. In this paper, we focus on the disk components, providing surface brightness measurements for all images and a detailed investigation of the asymmetries observed. A companion paper by Kammerer et al. will focus on the planets in this system using the same data. We report for the first time the presence of an extended secondary disk in thermal emission, with a curved extension bent away from the plane of the disk. This feature, which we refer to as the ``cat's tail", seems to be connected with the previously reported CO clump, mid-infrared asymmetry detected in the southwest side, and the warp observed in scattered light. We present a model of this secondary disk sporadically producing dust that broadly reproduces the morphology, flux, and color of the cat's tail, as well as other features observed in the disk, and suggests the secondary disk is composed largely of porous, organic refractory dust grains. |
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| spellingShingle | JWST-TST High Contrast: Asymmetries, dust populations and hints of a collision in the $β$ Pictoris disk with NIRCam and MIRI Rebollido, Isabel Stark, Christopher C. Kammerer, Jens Perrin, Marshall D. Lawson, Kellen Pueyo, Laurent Chen, Christine Hines, Dean Girard, Julien H. Worthen, Kadin Ingerbretsen, Carl Betti, Sarah Clampin, Mark Golimowski, David Hoch, Kielan Lewis, Nikole K. Lu, Cicero X. van der Marel, Roeland P. Rickman, Emily Seager, Sara Soummer, Remi Valenti, Jeff A. Ward-Duong, Kimberly Mountain, C. Matt Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics We present the first JWST MIRI and NIRCam observations of the prominent debris disk around Beta Pictoris. Coronagraphic observations in 8 filters spanning from 1.8 to 23~$μ$m provide an unprecedentedly clear view of the disk at these wavelengths. The objectives of the observing program were to investigate the dust composition and distribution, and to investigate the presence of planets in the system. In this paper, we focus on the disk components, providing surface brightness measurements for all images and a detailed investigation of the asymmetries observed. A companion paper by Kammerer et al. will focus on the planets in this system using the same data. We report for the first time the presence of an extended secondary disk in thermal emission, with a curved extension bent away from the plane of the disk. This feature, which we refer to as the ``cat's tail", seems to be connected with the previously reported CO clump, mid-infrared asymmetry detected in the southwest side, and the warp observed in scattered light. We present a model of this secondary disk sporadically producing dust that broadly reproduces the morphology, flux, and color of the cat's tail, as well as other features observed in the disk, and suggests the secondary disk is composed largely of porous, organic refractory dust grains. |
| title | JWST-TST High Contrast: Asymmetries, dust populations and hints of a collision in the $β$ Pictoris disk with NIRCam and MIRI |
| topic | Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05271 |