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2017ApJ...841L..11B - Astrophys. J., 841, L11-L11 (2017/May-3)

First millimeter detection of the disk around a young, isolated, planetary-mass object.

BAYO A., JOERGENS V., LIU Y., BRAUER R., OLOFSSON J., ARANCIBIA J., PINILLA P., WOLF S., RUGE J.P., HENNING T., NATTA A., JOHNSTON K.G., BONNEFOY M., BEUTHER H. and CHAUVIN G.

Abstract (from CDS):

OTS44 is one of only four free-floating planets known to have a disk. We have previously shown that it is the coolest and least massive known free-floating planet (∼12 MJup) with a substantial disk that is actively accreting. We have obtained Band 6 (233 GHz) ALMA continuum data of this very young disk-bearing object. The data show a clear unresolved detection of the source. We obtained disk-mass estimates via empirical correlations derived for young, higher-mass, central (substellar) objects. The range of values obtained are between 0.07 and 0.63 M⊕ (dust masses). We compare the properties of this unique disk with those recently reported around higher-mass (brown dwarfs) young objects in order to infer constraints on its mechanism of formation. While extreme assumptions on dust temperature yield disk-mass values that could slightly diverge from the general trends found for more massive brown dwarfs, a range of sensible values provide disk masses compatible with a unique scaling relation between Mdust and M* through the substellar domain down to planetary masses.

Abstract Copyright: © 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): brown dwarfs - stars: formation - stars: low-mass - stars: pre-main sequence - stars: pre-main sequence

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