The orbit of HD 142527 B is too compact to explain many of the disc features

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Auteurs principaux: Nowak, M., Rowther, S., Lacour, S., Meru, F., Nealon, R., Price, D. J.
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author Nowak, M.
Rowther, S.
Lacour, S.
Meru, F.
Nealon, R.
Price, D. J.
author_facet Nowak, M.
Rowther, S.
Lacour, S.
Meru, F.
Nealon, R.
Price, D. J.
contents HD 142527 A is a young and massive Herbig Ae/Be star surrounded by a highly structured disc. The disc shows numerous morphological structures, such as spiral arms, a horseshoe region of dust emission, a set of shadows cast by an inner disc on the outer disc, and a large cavity extending from $\simeq{}$30 au to $\simeq{}$130 au. HD 142527 A also has a lower mass companion, HD 142527 B (M = 0.13 $\pm$ 0.03 $M_\odot{}$), which is thought to be responsible for most of the structures observed in the surrounding disc. We gathered VLTI/GRAVITY observations of HD 142527, either from our own programmes or from the ESO archive. We used this inhomogeneous set of data to extract a total of seven high-precision measurements of the relative astrometry between HD 142527 A and B, spread from mid-2017 to early 2021. Combined with what is available in the literature, we now have 9 yr of astrometric monitoring on HD 142527. We used orbit fitting tools to determine the orbital parameters of HD 142527 B, and used them as inputs for a 3D hydrodynamical model of the disc to determine whether or not the binary is able to create the structures observed in the disc. Our VLTI/GRAVITY astrometry gives excellent constraints on the orbit of HD 142527 B. We show that the secondary is following an orbit of semi-major axis a = 10.80 $\pm$ 0.22 au, with moderate eccentricity (e = 0.47 $\pm$ 0.01). With such a compact orbit, we show that HD 142527 B can only generate a gap and spiral arms of $\sim$30 au in the disc, which is much smaller than what is revealed by observations. Even from a theoretical standpoint, the observed cavity size of $\sim$100 au far exceeds even the most generous predictions for a companion like HD 142527 B on such a compact orbit. Thus, we conclude that the low-mass companion cannot be solely responsible for the observed morphology of the disc surrounding the system.
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spellingShingle The orbit of HD 142527 B is too compact to explain many of the disc features
Nowak, M.
Rowther, S.
Lacour, S.
Meru, F.
Nealon, R.
Price, D. J.
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
HD 142527 A is a young and massive Herbig Ae/Be star surrounded by a highly structured disc. The disc shows numerous morphological structures, such as spiral arms, a horseshoe region of dust emission, a set of shadows cast by an inner disc on the outer disc, and a large cavity extending from $\simeq{}$30 au to $\simeq{}$130 au. HD 142527 A also has a lower mass companion, HD 142527 B (M = 0.13 $\pm$ 0.03 $M_\odot{}$), which is thought to be responsible for most of the structures observed in the surrounding disc. We gathered VLTI/GRAVITY observations of HD 142527, either from our own programmes or from the ESO archive. We used this inhomogeneous set of data to extract a total of seven high-precision measurements of the relative astrometry between HD 142527 A and B, spread from mid-2017 to early 2021. Combined with what is available in the literature, we now have 9 yr of astrometric monitoring on HD 142527. We used orbit fitting tools to determine the orbital parameters of HD 142527 B, and used them as inputs for a 3D hydrodynamical model of the disc to determine whether or not the binary is able to create the structures observed in the disc. Our VLTI/GRAVITY astrometry gives excellent constraints on the orbit of HD 142527 B. We show that the secondary is following an orbit of semi-major axis a = 10.80 $\pm$ 0.22 au, with moderate eccentricity (e = 0.47 $\pm$ 0.01). With such a compact orbit, we show that HD 142527 B can only generate a gap and spiral arms of $\sim$30 au in the disc, which is much smaller than what is revealed by observations. Even from a theoretical standpoint, the observed cavity size of $\sim$100 au far exceeds even the most generous predictions for a companion like HD 142527 B on such a compact orbit. Thus, we conclude that the low-mass companion cannot be solely responsible for the observed morphology of the disc surrounding the system.
title The orbit of HD 142527 B is too compact to explain many of the disc features
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03595