Scattered light shadows in warped protoplanetary discs

Abstract

Three-dimensional hydrodynamic numerical simulations have demonstrated that the structure of a protoplanetary disc may be strongly affected by a planet orbiting in a plane that is misaligned to the disc. When the planet is able to open a gap, the disc is separated into an inner, precessing disc and an outer disc with a warp. In this work, we compute infrared scattered light images to investigate the observational consequences of such an arrangement. We find that an inner disc misaligned by a less than a degree to the outer disc is indeed able to cast a shadow at larger radii. In our simulations a planet of around 6 Jupiter masses inclined by around 2 degrees is enough to warp the disc and cast a shadow with a depth of more than 10% of the average flux at that radius. We also demonstrate that warp in the outer disc can cause a variation in the azimuthal brightness profile at large radii. Importantly, this latter effect is a function of the distance from the star and is most prominent in the outer disc. We apply our model to the TW Hya system, where a misaligned, precessing inner disc has been invoked to explain an recently observed shadow in the outer disc. Consideration of the observational constraints suggest that an inner disc precessing due to a misaligned planet is an unlikely explanation for the features found in TW Hya.

Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 13 pages and 9 figures. Movies available at https://youtu.be/vuzX0KbhgGA and https://youtu.be/q4XeK60NGOE

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