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Volume 691, November 2024
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Article Number | A64 | |
Number of page(s) | 15 | |
Section | Planets and planetary systems | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202450881 | |
Published online | 30 October 2024 |
ExoplaNeT accRetion mOnitoring sPectroscopic surveY (ENTROPY)
I. Evidence for magnetospheric accretion in the young isolated planetary-mass object 2MASS J11151597+1937266★
1
Institutionen för astronomi, Stockholms universitet,
AlbaNova universitetscentrum,
106 91,
Stockholm,
Sweden
2
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG,
38000
Grenoble,
France
3
Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University,
Beijing
100084,
PR China
4
Department of Astronomy, Tsinghua University,
Beijing
100084,
PR China
5
Department of Earth and Planetary Science, The University of Tokyo,
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku,
Tokyo
113-0033,
Japan
6
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie,
Königstuhl 17,
69117
Heidelberg,
Germany
7
Fakultät für Physik, Universität Duisburg–Essen,
Lotharstraße 1,
47057
Duisburg,
Germany
8
Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Universität Tübingen,
Auf der Morgenstelle 10,
72076
Tübingen,
Germany
9
Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bern,
Gesellschaftsstr. 6,
3012
Bern,
Switzerland
10
ETH Zürich, Department of Physics,
Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 27,
CH-8093,
Zürich,
Switzerland
11
Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan,
323 West Hall, 1085 South University Avenue,
Ann Arbor,
MI
48109,
USA
12
Institute for Astrophysical Research and Department of Astronomy, Boston University,
725 Commonwealth Ave.,
Boston,
MA
02215,
USA
★★ Corresponding author; gayathri.viswanath@astro.su.se
Received:
26
May
2024
Accepted:
11
September
2024
Context. Accretion among planetary mass companions is a poorly understood phenomenon, due to the lack of both observational and theoretical studies. The detection of emission lines from accreting gas giants facilitates detailed investigations into this process.
Aims. This work presents a detailed analysis of Balmer lines from one of the few known young, planetary-mass objects with observed emission, the isolated L2γ dwarf 2MASS J11151597+1937266 with a mass between 7 and 21 MJup and an age of 5–45 Myr, located at 45 ± 2 pc.
Methods. We obtained the first high-resolution (R ~ 50 000) spectrum of the target with VLT/UVES, an echelle spectrograph operating in the near-ultraviolet to visible wavelengths (3200–6800 Å).
Results. We report several resolved hydrogen (H I; H3–H6) and helium (He I; λ5875.6) emission lines in the spectrum. Based on the asymmetric line profiles of Hα and Hβ, the 10% width of Hα (199 ± 1 km s−1), tentative He I λ6678 emission, and indications of a disk from mid-infrared excess, we confirm ongoing accretion at this object. Using the Gaia update of the parallax, we revise its temperature to 1816 ± 63 K and radius to 1.5 ± 0.1 RJup. Analysis of observed H I profiles using a 1D planet-surface shock model implies a pre-shock gas velocity, v0 = 120−40+ 80 km s−1, and a pre-shock density, log(n0/cm−3) = 14−5+ 0. The pre-shock velocity points to a mass, Mp = 6−4+ 8 MJup, for the target. Combining H I line luminosities (Lline) and planetary Lline−Lacc (accretion luminosity) scaling relations, we derived a mass accretion rate, Ṁacc = 1.4−0.9+ 2.8 × 10−8 MJup yr−1.
Conclusions. The line-emitting area predicted from the planet-surface shock model is very small (~0.03%), and points to a shock at the base of a magnetospherically induced funnel. The Hα profile exhibits a much stronger flux than predicted by the model that best fits the rest of the H I profiles, indicating that another mechanism than shock emission contributes to the Hα emission. Comparison of line fluxes and Ṁacc from archival moderate-resolution SDSS spectra indicate variable accretion at 2MASS J11151597+1937266.
Key words: accretion, accretion disks / line: profiles / techniques: spectroscopic / planets and satellites: individual: 2MASS J11151597+1937266 / brown dwarfs
© The Authors 2024
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