Abstract

We present the discovery of a spatially unresolved source of submillimeter continuum emission (lambda = 855 mu m) associated with a young planet, PDS 70 c, recently detected in Ha emission around the 5 Myr old T Tauri star PDS 70. We interpret the emission as originating from a dusty circumplanetary disk with a dust mass between 2 x 10(-3) M-circle plus and 4.2 x 10(-3) M-circle plus. Assuming a standard gas-to-dust ratio of 100, the ratio between the total mass of the circumplanetary disk and the mass of the central planet would be between 10(-4) and 10(-5). Furthermore, we report the discovery of another compact continuum source located 0 ''.074 +/- 0 ''.013 southwest of a second known planet in this system, PDS 70 b, that was previously detected in near-infrared images. We speculate that the latter source might trace dust orbiting in proximity of the planet, but more sensitive observations are required to unveil its nature.