| Flows of gas through a protoplanetary gap. | |
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PMID: 23283173 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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The formation of gaseous giant planets is thought to occur in the first few million years after stellar birth. Models predict that the process produces a deep gap in the dust component (shallower in the gas). Infrared observations of the disk around the young star HD 142527 (at a distance of about 140 parsecs from Earth) found an inner disk about 10 astronomical units (au) in radius (1 au is the Earth-Sun distance), surrounded by a particularly large gap and a disrupted outer disk beyond 140 au. This disruption is indicative of a perturbing planetary-mass body at about 90 au. Radio observations indicate that the bulk mass is molecular and lies in the outer disk, whose continuum emission has a horseshoe morphology. The high stellar accretion rate would deplete the inner disk in less than one year, and to sustain the observed accretion matter must therefore flow from the outer disk and cross the gap. In dynamical models, the putative protoplanets channel outer-disk material into gap-crossing bridges that feed stellar accretion through the inner disk. Here we report observations of diffuse CO gas inside the gap, with denser HCO(+) gas along gap-crossing filaments. The estimated flow rate of the gas is in the range of 7 × 10(-9) to 2 × 10(-7) solar masses per year, which is sufficient to maintain accretion onto the star at the present rate. |
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Simon Casassus; Gerrit van der Plas; Sebastian Perez M; William R F Dent; Ed Fomalont; Janis Hagelberg; Antonio Hales; Andrés Jordán; Dimitri Mawet; Francois Ménard; Al Wootten; David Wilner; A Meredith Hughes; Matthias R Schreiber; Julien H Girard; Barbara Ercolano; Hector Canovas; Pablo E Román; Vachail Salinas |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2013-1-02 |
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Title: Nature Volume: - ISSN: 1476-4687 ISO Abbreviation: Nature Publication Date: 2013 Jan |
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Created Date: 2013-1-3 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0410462 Medline TA: Nature Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile. |
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