Recovery of the Candidate Protoplanet HD 100546 b with Gemini/NICI and Detection of Additional (Planet-Induced?) Disk Structure at Small Separations

Thayne Currie, Takayuki Muto, Tomoyuki Kudo +23

We report the first independent, second-epoch (re-)detection of a directly-imaged protoplanet candidate. Using $L^{\prime }$ high-contrast imaging of HD 100546 taken with the Near-Inf…