The Dynamic Inner Disk of a Planet Forming Star
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| author | Setterholm, Benjamin R. Monnier, John D. Baron, Fabien Bae, Jaehan Kluska, Jacques Kraus, Stefan Calvet, Nuria Ibrahim, Nour Rich, Evan Anugu, Narsireddy Davies, Claire L. Ennis, Jacob Gardner, Tyler Labdon, Aaron Lanthermann, Cyprien Schaefer, Gail |
| author_facet | Setterholm, Benjamin R. Monnier, John D. Baron, Fabien Bae, Jaehan Kluska, Jacques Kraus, Stefan Calvet, Nuria Ibrahim, Nour Rich, Evan Anugu, Narsireddy Davies, Claire L. Ennis, Jacob Gardner, Tyler Labdon, Aaron Lanthermann, Cyprien Schaefer, Gail |
| contents | Planets are a natural byproduct of the stellar formation process, resulting from local aggregations of material within the disks surrounding young stars. Whereas signatures of gas-giant planets at large orbital separations have been observed and successfully modeled within protoplanetary disks, the formation pathways of planets within their host star's future habitable zones remain poorly understood. Analyzing multiple nights of observations conducted over a short, two-month span with the MIRC-X and PIONIER instruments at the CHARA Array and VLTI, respectively, we uncover a highly active environment at the inner-edge of the planet formation region in the disk of HD 163296. In particular, we localize and track the motion of a disk feature near the dust-sublimation radius with a pattern speed of less than half the local Keplerian velocity, providing a potential glimpse at the planet formation process in action within the inner astronomical unit. We emphasize that this result is at the edge of what is currently possible with available optical interferometric techniques and behooves confirmation with a temporally dense followup observing campaign. |
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| spellingShingle | The Dynamic Inner Disk of a Planet Forming Star Setterholm, Benjamin R. Monnier, John D. Baron, Fabien Bae, Jaehan Kluska, Jacques Kraus, Stefan Calvet, Nuria Ibrahim, Nour Rich, Evan Anugu, Narsireddy Davies, Claire L. Ennis, Jacob Gardner, Tyler Labdon, Aaron Lanthermann, Cyprien Schaefer, Gail Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Planets are a natural byproduct of the stellar formation process, resulting from local aggregations of material within the disks surrounding young stars. Whereas signatures of gas-giant planets at large orbital separations have been observed and successfully modeled within protoplanetary disks, the formation pathways of planets within their host star's future habitable zones remain poorly understood. Analyzing multiple nights of observations conducted over a short, two-month span with the MIRC-X and PIONIER instruments at the CHARA Array and VLTI, respectively, we uncover a highly active environment at the inner-edge of the planet formation region in the disk of HD 163296. In particular, we localize and track the motion of a disk feature near the dust-sublimation radius with a pattern speed of less than half the local Keplerian velocity, providing a potential glimpse at the planet formation process in action within the inner astronomical unit. We emphasize that this result is at the edge of what is currently possible with available optical interferometric techniques and behooves confirmation with a temporally dense followup observing campaign. |
| title | The Dynamic Inner Disk of a Planet Forming Star |
| topic | Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12046 |