Dynamical Mass Constraints on Transition Disk Perturbers with the G23H Catalog

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Hauptverfasser: Blakely, Dori, Thompson, William, Johnstone, Doug, Speedie, Jessica, Xuan, Jerry W., Blouin, Simon, Zhang, Jingwen, Ruffio, Jean-Baptiste, Nielsen, Eric, Bowler, Brendan P., Franson, Kyle, Roberson, William, Cloutier, Ryan, Fogal, Andre, Hessel, Kaitlyn, Marois, Christian, Rochon, Alexandra
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author Blakely, Dori
Thompson, William
Johnstone, Doug
Speedie, Jessica
Xuan, Jerry W.
Blouin, Simon
Zhang, Jingwen
Ruffio, Jean-Baptiste
Nielsen, Eric
Bowler, Brendan P.
Franson, Kyle
Roberson, William
Cloutier, Ryan
Fogal, Andre
Hessel, Kaitlyn
Marois, Christian
Rochon, Alexandra
author_facet Blakely, Dori
Thompson, William
Johnstone, Doug
Speedie, Jessica
Xuan, Jerry W.
Blouin, Simon
Zhang, Jingwen
Ruffio, Jean-Baptiste
Nielsen, Eric
Bowler, Brendan P.
Franson, Kyle
Roberson, William
Cloutier, Ryan
Fogal, Andre
Hessel, Kaitlyn
Marois, Christian
Rochon, Alexandra
contents We present dynamical mass constraints on perturbers in 11 transition disk systems using a novel combination of calibrated Hipparcos and Gaia absolute astrometry data. Out of the sample of 11, we find support for companions in seven systems, with significant detections in three. These systems are: HD 142527, where we clearly detect the known low-mass stellar companion HD 142527 B; AB Aurigae, where we detect a low-mass stellar or sub-stellar companion; and MWC 758, where we detect a likely sub-stellar companion. We also find strong evidence of companions to HD 97048 and UX Tau A, and moderate evidence for companions to HD 100546 and CQ Tau. In the four systems with non-detections, we find no evidence for companions more massive than $\sim$6 $M_{\mathrm{Jup}}$ with a semi-major axis greater than 3 au for HD 100453, nor for companions more massive than $\sim$2 $M_{\mathrm{Jup}}$ with a semi-major axis greater than 2 au for TW Hya. We also find no evidence for stellar mass companions with semi-major axes between $\sim$3 and $\sim$25 au for both HD 34282 and RY Lup. In addition to our fiducial model, we perform cross validation between astrometry sources. By comparing results across models, we find tentative evidence of a short timescale excess astrometric noise that may impact some protoplanetary disk systems. We conclude with predictions for the prospects of making dynamical mass constraints on protoplanets in protoplanetary disk systems with Gaia data release 4 using detailed simulations of Gaia DR4 data of PDS 70 and WISPIT 2.
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spellingShingle Dynamical Mass Constraints on Transition Disk Perturbers with the G23H Catalog
Blakely, Dori
Thompson, William
Johnstone, Doug
Speedie, Jessica
Xuan, Jerry W.
Blouin, Simon
Zhang, Jingwen
Ruffio, Jean-Baptiste
Nielsen, Eric
Bowler, Brendan P.
Franson, Kyle
Roberson, William
Cloutier, Ryan
Fogal, Andre
Hessel, Kaitlyn
Marois, Christian
Rochon, Alexandra
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
We present dynamical mass constraints on perturbers in 11 transition disk systems using a novel combination of calibrated Hipparcos and Gaia absolute astrometry data. Out of the sample of 11, we find support for companions in seven systems, with significant detections in three. These systems are: HD 142527, where we clearly detect the known low-mass stellar companion HD 142527 B; AB Aurigae, where we detect a low-mass stellar or sub-stellar companion; and MWC 758, where we detect a likely sub-stellar companion. We also find strong evidence of companions to HD 97048 and UX Tau A, and moderate evidence for companions to HD 100546 and CQ Tau. In the four systems with non-detections, we find no evidence for companions more massive than $\sim$6 $M_{\mathrm{Jup}}$ with a semi-major axis greater than 3 au for HD 100453, nor for companions more massive than $\sim$2 $M_{\mathrm{Jup}}$ with a semi-major axis greater than 2 au for TW Hya. We also find no evidence for stellar mass companions with semi-major axes between $\sim$3 and $\sim$25 au for both HD 34282 and RY Lup. In addition to our fiducial model, we perform cross validation between astrometry sources. By comparing results across models, we find tentative evidence of a short timescale excess astrometric noise that may impact some protoplanetary disk systems. We conclude with predictions for the prospects of making dynamical mass constraints on protoplanets in protoplanetary disk systems with Gaia data release 4 using detailed simulations of Gaia DR4 data of PDS 70 and WISPIT 2.
title Dynamical Mass Constraints on Transition Disk Perturbers with the G23H Catalog
topic Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07731