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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 895, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab94a8
关键词
Protoplanetary disks; Planet formation; Circumstellar disks
资金
- National Science Foundation
- NASA through Hubble Fellowship - Space Telescope Science Institute [HST-HF2-51401.001]
- NASA [NAS5-26555]
The recent Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP) survey provided illuminating results on the diversity of substructures in planet-forming disks. These substructures trace pebble-sized grains accumulated at local pressure maxima, possibly due to planet-disk interactions or other planet formation processes. DSHARP sources are heavily biased to large and massive disks that only represent the high (dust flux) tail end of the disk population. Thus it is unclear whether similar substructures and corresponding physical processes also occur in the majority of disks that are fainter and more compact. Here we explore the presence and characteristics of features in a compact disk around GQ Lup A, the effective radius of which is 1.5-10 times smaller than those of DSHARP disks. We present our analysis of ALMA 1.3 mm continuum observations of the GQ Lup system. By fitting visibility profiles of the continuum emission, we find substructures including a gap at similar to 10 au. The compact disk around GQ Lup exhibits similar substructures to those in the DSHARP sample, suggesting that mechanisms of trapping pebble-sized grains are at work in small disks as well. Characteristics of the feature at similar to 10 au, if due to a hidden planet, are evidence of planet formation at Saturnian distances. Our results hint at a rich world of substructures to be identified within the common population of compact disks, and subsequently a population of solar system analogs within these disks. Such study is critical to understanding the formation mechanisms and planet populations in the majority of protoplanetary disks.
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