Interferometric Evidence for Resolved Warm Dust in the DQ Tau System

May 2009 • 2009ApJ...696L.111B

Authors • Boden, Andrew F. • Akeson, Rachel L. • Sargent, Anneila I. • Carpenter, John M. • Ciardi, David R. • Bary, Jeffrey S. • Skrutskie, Michael F.

Abstract • We report on near-infrared (IR) interferometric observations of the double-lined pre-main sequence binary system DQ Tau. We model these data with a visual orbit for DQ Tau supported by the spectroscopic orbit and analysis of Mathieu et al. Further, DQ Tau exhibits significant near-IR excess; modeling our data requires inclusion of near-IR light from an "excess" source. Remarkably, the excess source is resolved in our data, similar in scale to the binary itself (~0.2 AU at apastron), rather than the larger circumbinary disk (~0.4 AU radius). Our observations support the Mathieu et al. and Carr et al. inference of significant warm material near the DQ Tau binary.

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