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The planet companion around β Pictoris

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2011

Anne-Marie Lagrange
Affiliation:
Laboratoire dAstrophysique de Grenoble, France email: lagrange@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, bonnefoy@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, chauvin@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, ehrenreich@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, mouillet@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr
Mickaël Bonnefoy
Affiliation:
Laboratoire dAstrophysique de Grenoble, France email: lagrange@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, bonnefoy@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, chauvin@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, ehrenreich@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, mouillet@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr
Gael Chauvin
Affiliation:
Laboratoire dAstrophysique de Grenoble, France email: lagrange@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, bonnefoy@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, chauvin@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, ehrenreich@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, mouillet@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr
Daniel Apai
Affiliation:
Space Telesope Sciente Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr. Baltimore, MD 21218, USA email: apai@stsci.edu
David Ehrenreich
Affiliation:
Laboratoire dAstrophysique de Grenoble, France email: lagrange@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, bonnefoy@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, chauvin@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, ehrenreich@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, mouillet@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr
Anthony Boccaletti
Affiliation:
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France email: anthony.boccaletti@obspm.fr, daniel.rouan@obspm.fr, damien.gratadour@obspm.fr, sylvestre.lacour@obspm.fr
Damien Gratadour
Affiliation:
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France email: anthony.boccaletti@obspm.fr, daniel.rouan@obspm.fr, damien.gratadour@obspm.fr, sylvestre.lacour@obspm.fr
Daniel Rouan
Affiliation:
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France email: anthony.boccaletti@obspm.fr, daniel.rouan@obspm.fr, damien.gratadour@obspm.fr, sylvestre.lacour@obspm.fr
David Mouillet
Affiliation:
Laboratoire dAstrophysique de Grenoble, France email: lagrange@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, bonnefoy@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, chauvin@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, ehrenreich@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, mouillet@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr
Sylvestre Lacour
Affiliation:
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France email: anthony.boccaletti@obspm.fr, daniel.rouan@obspm.fr, damien.gratadour@obspm.fr, sylvestre.lacour@obspm.fr
Markus Kasper
Affiliation:
ESO, Karl Schwarzschild St, 2, 85748 Garching bei Muenchen, Germany email: mkasper@eso.org
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Abstract

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The β Pic disk of dust and gas has been regarded as the prototype of young planetary systems since the 1980s and has revealed over the years an impressive amount of indirect signs pointing toward the presence of at least one giant planet. We present here the recently detected first giant planet around this star. We show how this planet could explain some very peculiar features of the star environment (disk, spectroscopic variability), and how it constrains the scenarios of planetary system formation (timescales, mechanisms).

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Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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