A Uniform Analysis of Debris Disks with the Gemini Planet Imager II: Constraints on Dust Density Distribution Using Empirically-Informed Scattering Phase Functions
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| author | Hom, Justin Patience, Jennifer Chen, Christine H. Duchêne, Gaspard Mazoyer, Johan Millar-Blanchaer, Maxwell A. Esposito, Thomas M. Kalas, Paul Crotts, Katie A. Gonzales, Eileen C. Kolokolova, Ludmilla Lewis, Briley L. Matthews, Brenda C. Rice, Malena Weinberger, Alycia J. Wilner, David J. Wolff, Schuyler G. Bruzzone, Sebastián Choquet, Elodie Debes, John De Rosa, Robert J. Donaldson, Jessica Draper, Zachary Fitzgerald, Michael P. Hines, Dean C. Hinkley, Sasha Hughes, A. Meredith López, Ronald A. Marchis, Franck Metchev, Stanimir Moro-Martin, Amaya Nesvold, Erika Nielsen, Eric L. Oppenheimer, Rebecca Padgett, Deborah Perrin, Marshall D. Pueyo, Laurent Rantakyrö, Frederik Ren, Bin B. Schneider, Glenn Soummer, Remí Song, Inseok Stark, Christopher C. |
| author_facet | Hom, Justin Patience, Jennifer Chen, Christine H. Duchêne, Gaspard Mazoyer, Johan Millar-Blanchaer, Maxwell A. Esposito, Thomas M. Kalas, Paul Crotts, Katie A. Gonzales, Eileen C. Kolokolova, Ludmilla Lewis, Briley L. Matthews, Brenda C. Rice, Malena Weinberger, Alycia J. Wilner, David J. Wolff, Schuyler G. Bruzzone, Sebastián Choquet, Elodie Debes, John De Rosa, Robert J. Donaldson, Jessica Draper, Zachary Fitzgerald, Michael P. Hines, Dean C. Hinkley, Sasha Hughes, A. Meredith López, Ronald A. Marchis, Franck Metchev, Stanimir Moro-Martin, Amaya Nesvold, Erika Nielsen, Eric L. Oppenheimer, Rebecca Padgett, Deborah Perrin, Marshall D. Pueyo, Laurent Rantakyrö, Frederik Ren, Bin B. Schneider, Glenn Soummer, Remí Song, Inseok Stark, Christopher C. |
| contents | Spatially-resolved images of debris disks are necessary to determine disk morphological properties and the scattering phase function (SPF) which quantifies the brightness of scattered light as a function of phase angle. Current high-contrast imaging instruments have successfully resolved several dozens of debris disks around other stars, but few studies have investigated trends in the scattered-light, resolved population of debris disks in a uniform and consistent manner. We have combined Karhunen-Loeve Image Projection (KLIP) with radiative-transfer disk forward modeling in order to obtain the highest quality image reductions and constrain disk morphological properties of eight debris disks imaged by the Gemini Planet Imager at H-band with a consistent and uniformly-applied approach. In describing the scattering properties of our models, we assume a common SPF informed from solar system dust scattering measurements and apply it to all systems. We identify a diverse range of dust density properties among the sample, including critical radius, radial width, and vertical width. We also identify radially narrow and vertically extended disks that may have resulted from substellar companion perturbations, along with a tentative positive trend in disk eccentricity with relative disk width. We also find that using a common SPF can achieve reasonable model fits for disks that are axisymmetric and asymmetric when fitting models to each side of the disk independently, suggesting that scattering behavior from debris disks may be similar to Solar System dust. |
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| spellingShingle | A Uniform Analysis of Debris Disks with the Gemini Planet Imager II: Constraints on Dust Density Distribution Using Empirically-Informed Scattering Phase Functions Hom, Justin Patience, Jennifer Chen, Christine H. Duchêne, Gaspard Mazoyer, Johan Millar-Blanchaer, Maxwell A. Esposito, Thomas M. Kalas, Paul Crotts, Katie A. Gonzales, Eileen C. Kolokolova, Ludmilla Lewis, Briley L. Matthews, Brenda C. Rice, Malena Weinberger, Alycia J. Wilner, David J. Wolff, Schuyler G. Bruzzone, Sebastián Choquet, Elodie Debes, John De Rosa, Robert J. Donaldson, Jessica Draper, Zachary Fitzgerald, Michael P. Hines, Dean C. Hinkley, Sasha Hughes, A. Meredith López, Ronald A. Marchis, Franck Metchev, Stanimir Moro-Martin, Amaya Nesvold, Erika Nielsen, Eric L. Oppenheimer, Rebecca Padgett, Deborah Perrin, Marshall D. Pueyo, Laurent Rantakyrö, Frederik Ren, Bin B. Schneider, Glenn Soummer, Remí Song, Inseok Stark, Christopher C. Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Spatially-resolved images of debris disks are necessary to determine disk morphological properties and the scattering phase function (SPF) which quantifies the brightness of scattered light as a function of phase angle. Current high-contrast imaging instruments have successfully resolved several dozens of debris disks around other stars, but few studies have investigated trends in the scattered-light, resolved population of debris disks in a uniform and consistent manner. We have combined Karhunen-Loeve Image Projection (KLIP) with radiative-transfer disk forward modeling in order to obtain the highest quality image reductions and constrain disk morphological properties of eight debris disks imaged by the Gemini Planet Imager at H-band with a consistent and uniformly-applied approach. In describing the scattering properties of our models, we assume a common SPF informed from solar system dust scattering measurements and apply it to all systems. We identify a diverse range of dust density properties among the sample, including critical radius, radial width, and vertical width. We also identify radially narrow and vertically extended disks that may have resulted from substellar companion perturbations, along with a tentative positive trend in disk eccentricity with relative disk width. We also find that using a common SPF can achieve reasonable model fits for disks that are axisymmetric and asymmetric when fitting models to each side of the disk independently, suggesting that scattering behavior from debris disks may be similar to Solar System dust. |
| title | A Uniform Analysis of Debris Disks with the Gemini Planet Imager II: Constraints on Dust Density Distribution Using Empirically-Informed Scattering Phase Functions |
| topic | Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00214 |