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Volume 670, February 2023
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Article Number | A74 | |
Number of page(s) | 13 | |
Section | Planets and planetary systems | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202244845 | |
Published online | 08 February 2023 |
Observing circumplanetary disks with METIS
1
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology,
Kluyverweg 1,
2629 HS
Delft, The Netherlands
2
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen,
PO Box 800,
9700 AV
Groningen, The Netherlands
e-mail: oberg@astro.rug.nl
3
University of Leiden,
PO Box 9513,
2300 RA
Leiden, The Netherlands
4
Universitäts-Sternwarte, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,
Scheinerstr. 1,
81679
München, Germany
5
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik,
Gießenbachstraße 1,
85748
Garching, Germany
6
Institut für Astrophysik, Universität Wien,
Türkenschanzstraße 17,
1180
Wien, Austria
Received:
30
August
2022
Accepted:
6
December
2022
Context. Gaining a full understanding of the planet and moon formation process calls for observations that probe the circumplanetary environment of accreting giant planets. The mid-infrared ELT imager and spectrograph (METIS) will provide a unique capability to detect warm-gas emission lines from circumplanetary disks.
Aims. We aim to demonstrate the capability of the METIS instrument on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) to detect circumplanetary disks (CPDs) with fundamental v = 1−0 transitions of 12CO from 4.5 to 5 μm.
Methods. We considered the case of the well-studied HD 100546 pre-transitional disk to inform our disk modeling approach. We used the radiation-thermochemical disk modeling code ProDiMo to produce synthetic spectral channel maps. The observational simulator SimMETIS was employed to produce realistic data products with the integral field spectroscopic (IFU) mode.
Results. The detectability of the CPD depends strongly on the level of external irradiation and the physical extent of the disk, favoring massive (~10 MJ) planets and spatially extended disks, with radii approaching the planetary Hill radius. The majority of 12CO line emission originates from the outer disk surface and, thus, the CO line profiles are centrally peaked. The planetary luminosity does not contribute significantly to exciting disk gas line emission. If CPDs are dust-depleted, the 12CO line emission is enhanced as external radiation can penetrate deeper into the line emitting region.
Conclusions. UV-bright star systems with pre-transitional disks are ideal candidates to search for CO-emitting CPDs with ELT/METIS. METIS will be able to detect a variety of circumplanetary disks via their fundamental 12CO ro-vibrational line emission in only 60 s of total detector integration time.
Key words: planets and satellites: formation / planets and satellites: individual: HD 100546 c / infrared: planetary systems / methods: numerical / accretion, accretion disks / protoplanetary disks
© The Authors 2023
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