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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 471, 期 1, 页码 740-749出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1249
关键词
protoplanetary discs; circumstellar matter; stars: individual: PDS 110; stars: pre-main-sequence; stars: variables: T Tauri; Herbig Ae/Be
资金
- University of Warwick Chancellor's Scholarship
- Harvard Future Faculty Leaders Postdoctoral fellowship
- Royal Society
- NASA [NNG04GO70G]
- Vanderbilt Office of the Provost through the Vanderbilt Initiative in Data-intensive Astrophysics
- European Union Seventh Framework programme [313014]
- NSF CAREER [AST-1056524]
- NSF PAARE [AST-1358862]
- NASA NExSS
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship [DE-FG02-97ER25308]
- NSF [AST-1515876, AST-1515927]
We report the discovery of eclipses by circumstellar disc material associated with the young star PDS 110 in the Ori OB1a association using the SuperWASP and Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope surveys. PDS 110 (HD 290380, IRAS 05209-0107) is a rare Fe/Ge-type star, an similar to 10 Myr-old accreting intermediate-mass star showing strong infrared excess (L-IR/L-bol similar or equal to 0.25). Two extremely similar eclipses with a depth of 30 per cent and duration similar to 25 d were observed in 2008 November and 2011 January. We interpret the eclipses as caused by the same structure with an orbital period of 808 +/- 2 d. Shearing over a single orbit rules out diffuse dust clumps as the cause, favouring the hypothesis of a companion at similar to 2 au. The characteristics of the eclipses are consistent with transits by an unseen low-mass (1.8-70M(Jup)) planet or brown dwarf with a circumsecondary disc of diameter similar to 0.3 au. The next eclipse event is predicted to take place in 2017 September and could be monitored by amateur and professional observatories across the world.
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