Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-08-30
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
14 pages, 7 figures, emulateapj, to appear in Sep 1 ApJ
Scientific paper
We detect the HD 32297 debris disk in scattered light at 1.6 and 2.05 \micron. We use these new observations together with a previous scattered light image of the disk at 1.1 \micron to examine the structure and scattering efficiency of the disk as a function of wavelength. In addition to surface brightness asymmetries and a warped morphology beyond $\sim$1\farcs5 for one lobe of the disk, we find that there exists an asymmetry in the spectral features of the grains between the northeastern and southwestern lobes. The mostly neutral color of the disk lobes imply roughly 1 \micron-sized grains are responsible for the scattering. We find that the asymmetries in color and morphology can plausibly be explained by HD 32297's motion into a dense ISM cloud at a relative velocity of 15 km s$^{-1}$. We model the interaction of dust grains with HI gas in the cloud. We argue that supersonic ballistic drag can explain the morphology of the debris disks of HD 32297, HD 15115, and HD 61005.
Debes John H.
Kuchner Marc J.
Weinberger Alycia J.
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