2008ApJ...687L..83R

We have found a photoevaporated disk in the Orion Nebula that includes a wide binary. HST ACS observations of the proplyd 124-132 show two pointlike sources separated by 0.15", or about 60 AU at the distance of Orion. The two sources have nearly identical I and z magnitudes. We analyze the brightest component, source N, comparing the observed magnitudes with those predicted using a 1 Myr Baraffe/NextGen isochrone with different accretion luminosities and extinctions. We find that a low-mass (≃0.04 M_☉) brown dwarf ∼1 Myr old with mass accretion rate logM{dot}≃-10.3, typical for objects of this mass, and about 2 mag of visual extinction provides the best fit to the data. This is the first observation of a circumbinary disk undergoing photoevaporation and, if confirmed by spectroscopic observations, the first direct detection of a wide substellar pair still accreting and enshrouded in its circumbinary disk.