Millimeter Dust Emission in the GQ Lup System

Abstract

We present Submillimeter Array observations of the GQ Lup system at 1.3 millimeters wavelength with $0\farcs4$ ($\sim$60 AU) resolution. Emission is detected from the position of the primary star, GQ Lup A, and is marginally resolved. No emission is detected from the substellar companion, GQ Lup B, $0\farcs7$ away. These data, together with models of the spectral energy distribution, suggest a compact disk around GQ Lup A with mass $\sim 3$ M${}_{Jup}$, perhaps truncated by tidal forces. There is no evidence for a gap or hole in the disk that might be the signature of an additional inner companion body capable of scattering GQ Lup B out to $\sim 100$ AU separation from GQ Lup A. For GQ Lup B to have formed {\it in situ}, the disk would have to have been much more massive and extended.

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