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A Decade of MWC 758 Disk Images: Where Are the Spiral-arm-driving Planets?

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Large-scale spiral arms have been revealed in scattered light images of a few protoplanetary disks. Theoretical models suggest that such arms may be driven by and co-rotate with giant planets, which has called for remarkable observational efforts to look for them. By examining the rotation of the spiral arms for the MWC 758 system over a 10-yr timescale, we are able to provide dynamical constraints on the locations of their perturbers. We present reprocessed Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/NICMOS F110W observations of the target in 2005, and the new Keck/NIRC2 L-band observations in 2017. MWC 758's two well-known spiral arms are revealed in the NICMOS archive at the earliest observational epoch. With additional Very Large Telescope (VLT)/SPHERE data, our joint analysis leads to a pattern speed of 0. • 6 +3. • 3 −0. • 6 yr −1 at 3σ for the two major spiral arms. If the two arms are induced by a perturber on a near-circular orbit, its best fit orbit is at 89 au (0. 59), with a 3σ lower limit of 30 au (0. 20). This finding is consistent with the simulation prediction of the location of an arm-driving planet for the two major arms in the system.
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hal-02118162 , version 1 (02-05-2019)

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Bin Ren, Ruobing Dong, Thomas M Esposito, Laurent Pueyo, John H Debes, et al.. A Decade of MWC 758 Disk Images: Where Are the Spiral-arm-driving Planets?. The Astrophysical journal letters, 2018, 857 (1), pp.L9. ⟨10.3847/2041-8213/aab7f5⟩. ⟨hal-02118162⟩
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