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High-Resolution Imaging of the Dust Disk around 49 Ceti | | Z. Wahhaj
; D.W. Koerner
; A.I. Sargent
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11 Jan 2007 | | Abstract: | Sub-arcsecond scale Keck images of the young A1V star, 49 Ceti, resolve emission at lambda = 12.5 and 17.9 microns from a disk with long axis at PA 125 pm 10 degrees and inclination phi = 60 pm 15 degrees . At 17.9 microns, the emission is brighter and more extended toward the NW than the SE. Modeling of the mid-infrared images combined with flux densities from the literature indicate that the bulk of the mid-infrared emission comes from very small grains (a ~ 0.1 microns) confined between 30 and 60 AU from the star. This population of dust grains contributes negligibly to the significant excess observed in the spectral energy distribution. Most of the non- photospheric energy is radiated at longer wavelengths by an outer disk of larger grains (a ~ 15 microns), inner radius ~ 60 AU, and outer radius ~ 900 AU. Global properties of the 49 Cet disk show more affinity with the Beta Pic and HR 4796A disks than with other debris disks. This may be because they are all very young (t < 20 Myr), adding strength to the argument that they are transitional objects between Herbig Ae and "Vega-like" A stars with more tenuous circumstellar disks. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0701352 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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