Sub-millimetre non-contaminated detection of the disc around TWA 7 by ALMA

Bayo A.; Olofsson J.; Matrà L.; Beamín J.C.; Gallardo J.; De Gregorio-Monsalvo I.; Booth M.; Zamora C.; Iglesias D.; Henning T.; Schreiber, M. R.; Cáceres C.

Abstract

Debris discs can be seen as the leftovers of giant planet formation and the possible nurseries of rocky planets. While M-type stars outnumber more massive stars we know very little about the time evolution of their circumstellar discs at ages older than 10 Myr. Sub-millimetre observations are best to provide first order estimates of the available mass reservoir and thus better constrain the evolution of such discs. Here, we present ALMA Cycle 3 Band 7 observations of the debris disc around the M2 star TWA 7, which had been postulated to harbour two spatially separated dust belts, based on unresolved far-infrared and sub-millimetre data, We show that most of the emission at wavelengths longer than 300 p.m is in lac( arising from a contaminant source, most likely a sub-min galaxy, located al about 6.6 arcsec east of TWA 7 (in 2016). Fortunately, the high resolution of our ALMA data allows us to disentangle the contaminant emission from that of the disc and report a significant detection of the disc in the sub-millimetre for the first time with a flux density of 2,1 0,4 ntly at 870 p.m. With this detection, we show that the spectral energy distribution can be reproduced with a single dust belt.

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Título según WOS: Sub-millimetre non-contaminated detection of the disc around TWA 7 by ALMA
Título según SCOPUS: Sub-millimetre non-contaminated detection of the disc around TWA7 by ALMA
Título de la Revista: MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volumen: 486
Número: 4
Editorial: Oxford Academic
Fecha de publicación: 2019
Página de inicio: 5552
Página final: 5557
Idioma: English
DOI:

10.1093/mnras/stz1133

Notas: ISI, SCOPUS