Are Giant Planets Forming Around HR 4796A?

Details Are Giant Planets Forming Around HR 4796A? Are Giant Planets Forming Around HR 4796A?

2003-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311061v1

Astrophys.J. 602 (2004) 985-992

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 3 figures (including 1 color figure), accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/381243

We have obtained FUSE and HST STIS spectra of HR 4796A, a nearby 8 Myr old main sequence star that possesses a dusty circumstellar disk whose inclination has been constrained from high resolution near-infrared observations to be ~17 deg from edge-on. We searched for circumstellar absorption in the ground states of C II at 1036.3 A, O I at 1039.2 A, Zn II at 2026.1 A, Lyman series H2, and CO (A-X) and failed to detect any of these species. We place upper limits on the column densities and infer upper limits on the gas masses assuming that the gas is in hydrostatic equilibrium, is well-mixed, and has a temperature, Tgas ~ 65 K. Our measurements suggest that this system possesses very little molecular gas. Therefore, we infer an upper limit for the gas:dust ratio (<4.0) assuming that the gas is atomic. We measure less gas in this system than is required to form the envelope of Jupiter.

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