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astro-ph.EP2019★ 7 cited

Variable warm dust around the Herbig Ae star HD~169142: Birth of a ring?

Lei Chen, Attila Moor, Alexander Kreplin +7

The Herbig Ae star HD 169142 is known to have a gaseous disk with a large inner hole, and also a photometrically variable inner dust component in the sub-au region. Following up ou…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 71 cited

Are Inner Disc Misalignments Common? ALMA Reveals an Isotropic Outer Disc Inclination Distribution for Young Dipper Stars

M. Ansdell, E. Gaidos, C. Hedges +12

Dippers are a common class of young variable star exhibiting day-long dimmings with depths of up to several tens of percent. A standard explanation is that dippers host nearly edge…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 141 cited

Peering into the formation history of beta Pictoris b with VLTI/GRAVITY long baseline interferometry

GRAVITY Collaboration, M. Nowak, S. Lacour +65

Our objective is to estimate the C/O ratio in the atmosphere of beta Pictoris b and obtain an estimate of the dynamical mass of the planet, as well as to refine its orbital paramet…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 24 cited

A dusty benchmark brown dwarf near the ice line of HD 72946

A. -L. Maire, J. -L. Baudino, S. Desidera +12

Context. HD72946 is a bright and nearby solar-type star hosting a low-mass companion at long period (P~16 yr) detected with the radial velocities (RV) method. The companion has a m…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 36 cited

A HARPS RV search for planets around young nearby stars

A. Grandjean, A. -M. Lagrange, M. Keppler +9

Young nearby stars are good candidates in the search for planets with both radial velocity (RV) and direct imaging techniques. This, in turn, allows for the computation of the gian…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 21 cited

RefPlanets: Search for reflected light from extra-solar planets with SPHERE/ZIMPOL

S. Hunziker, H. M. Schmid, D. Mouillet +55

RefPlanets is a guaranteed time observation (GTO) programme that uses the Zurich IMaging POLarimeter (ZIMPOL) of SPHERE/VLT for a blind search for exoplanets in wavelengths from 60…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 83 cited

Disks Around T Tauri Stars with SPHERE (DARTTS-S) II: Twenty-one new polarimetric images of young stellar disks

Antonio Garufi, Henning Avenhaus, Sebastian Perez +8

Near-IR polarimetric images of protoplanetary disks enable us to characterize substructures that might be due to the interaction with (forming) planets. The available census is str…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 49 cited

The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Dynamical Mass of the Exoplanet beta Pictoris b from Combined Direct Imaging and Astrometry

Eric L. Nielsen, Robert J. De Rosa, Jason J. Wang +51

We present new observations of the planet beta Pictoris b from 2018 with GPI, the first GPI observations following conjunction. Based on these new measurements, we perform a joint…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 20 cited

First Resolved Scattered-Light Images of Four Debris Disks in Scorpius-Centaurus with the Gemini Planet Imager

Justin Hom, Jennifer Patience, Thomas M. Esposito +57

We present the first spatially resolved scattered-light images of four debris disks around members of the Scorpius-Centaurus (Sco-Cen) OB Association with high-contrast imaging and…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 67 cited

Shadowing and multiple rings in the protoplanetary disk of HD 139614

G. A. Muro-Arena, M. Benisty, C. Ginski +20

Shadows in scattered light images of protoplanetary disks are a common feature and support the presence of warps or misalignments between disk regions. These warps are possibly due…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 5 cited

Debris disks around stars in the NIKA2 era

J. -F. Lestrade, J. -C. Augereau, M. Booth +42

The new NIKA2 camera at the IRAM 30m radiotelescope was used to observe three known debris disks in order to constrain the SED of their dust emission in the millimeter wavelength d…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 4 cited

Probing the subsurface of the two faces of Iapetus

Léa E. Bonnefoy, Jean-François Lestrade, Emmanuel Lellouch +4

Saturn's moon Iapetus, which is in synchronous rotation, is covered by an optically dark material mainly on its leading side, while its trailing side is significantly brighter. Bec…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 51 cited

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets. XVI. HD 158259: A compact planetary system in a near-3:2 mean motion resonance chain

N. C. Hara, F. Bouchy, M. Stalport +32

Since 2011, the SOPHIE spectrograph has been used to search for Neptunes and super-Earths in the Northern Hemisphere. As part of this observational program, 290 radial velocity mea…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 18 cited

HD 117214 debris disk: scattered-light images and constraints on the presence of planets

N. Engler, C. Lazzoni, R. Gratton +34

We performed observations of the Sco-Cen F star HD 117214 aiming at a search for planetary companions and the characterization of the debris disk structure. HD 117214 was observed…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 88 cited

Spiral arms in the proto-planetary disc HD100453 detected with ALMA: evidence for binary-disc interaction and a vertical temperature gradient

G. P. Rosotti, M. Benisty, A. Juhász +7

Scattered light high-resolution imaging of the proto-planetary disc orbiting HD100453 shows two symmetric spiral arms, possibly launched by an external stellar companion. In this p…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 84 cited

VLT/SPHERE exploration of the young multiplanetary system PDS70

D. Mesa, M. Keppler, F. Cantalloube +51

Context. PDS 70 is a young (5.4 Myr), nearby (~113 pc) star hosting a known transition disk with a large gap. Recent observations with SPHERE and NACO in the near-infrared (NIR) al…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 24 cited

An updated visual orbit of the directly-imaged exoplanet 51 Eridani b and prospects for a dynamical mass measurement with Gaia

Robert J. De Rosa, Eric L. Nielsen, Jason J. Wang +52

We present a revision to the visual orbit of the young, directly-imaged exoplanet 51 Eridani b using four years of observations with the Gemini Planet Imager. The relative astromet…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 79 cited

Flybys in protoplanetary discs: II. Observational signatures

Nicolás Cuello, Fabien Louvet, Daniel Mentiplay +14

Tidal encounters in star clusters perturb discs around young protostars. In Cuello et al. (2019a, Paper I) we detailed the dynamical signatures of a stellar flyby in both gas and d…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 10 cited

Detection of H emission from PZ Tel B using SPHERE/ZIMPOL

Arianna Musso Barcucci, Gabriele Cugno, Ralf Launhardt +7

H is a powerful tracer of accretion and chromospheric activity, which has been detected in the case of young brown dwarfs and even recently in planetary mass companions (e.g. PD…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 29 cited

A new take on the low-mass brown dwarf companions on wide-orbits in Upper-Scorpius

Simon Petrus, Mickaël Bonnefoy, Gaël Chauvin +10

The Upper-Scorpius association (5-11 Myr) contains a unique population of low-mass (M<30 MJup) brown-dwarfs. The detailed relative characterization of their physical properties (ma…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 54 cited

Signatures of an eccentric disc cavity: Dust and gas in IRS 48

Josh Calcino, Daniel J. Price, Christophe Pinte +5

We test the hypothesis that the disc cavity in the `transition disc' Oph IRS 48 is carved by an unseen binary companion. We use 3D dust-gas smoothed-particle hydrodynamics simulati…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 103 cited

An Ideal Testbed for Planet-disk Interaction: Two Giant Protoplanets in Resonance Shaping the PDS 70 Protoplanetary Disk

Jaehan Bae, Zhaohuan Zhu, Clément Baruteau +7

While numerical simulations have been playing a key role in the studies of planet-disk interaction, testing numerical results against observations has been limited so far. With the…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 37 cited

Constraints on the occurrence and distribution of 1--20 \mj\ companions to stars at separations of 5--5000\,au from a compilation of direct imaging surveys

Frédérique Baron, David Lafrenière, Étienne Artigau +4

We present the first statistical analysis of exoplanet direct imaging surveys combining adaptive optics imaging at small separations with deep seeing-limited observations at large…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 9 cited

ODEA: Orbital Dynamics in a complex Evolving Architecture -- Application to the planetary system HD 106906

L. Rodet, H. Beust, M. Bonnefoy +3

Mixed-variable symplectic integrators are widely used in orbital dynamics. However, they have been developed for Solar system-type architectures, and can not handle evolving hierar…