First Millimeter Detection of the Disk around a Young, Isolated, Planetary-mass Object
Abstract
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 {M}{Jup}) 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}\oplus (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 {M}{dust} and M * through the substellar domain down to planetary masses.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- May 2017
- DOI:
- 10.3847/2041-8213/aa7046
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1705.06378
- Bibcode:
- 2017ApJ...841L..11B
- Keywords:
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- brown dwarfs;
- stars: formation;
- stars: low-mass;
- stars: pre-main sequence;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- 7 pages, 2 figures