CE Antliae (also called TWA 7) is a young low-mass star in the constellation of Antlia. It is surrounded by a debris disk and has one directly imaged planet candidate.[9]
A light curve for CE Antliae, plotted from TESS data. The star's rotation period is marked in red.
TWA 7 was discovered in 1999 with a spectral type of M1 and as a member of the TW Hydrae association.[3] The detection of molecular hydrogen is interpreted as a weak sign of accretion of gas near the star.[11] A giant x-ray flare was detected on 2010-09-07 with MAXI/GSC on the ISS.[5]
Planetary system
The disk was first imaged in scattered light in 1998 with Hubble NICMOS, but it needed a re-processing in 2016 to reveal the disk. The observation showed a pole-on dust ring with a radius of about 35 astronomical units.[12] An outer ring and a spiral arm originating from the main ring was tentatively detected with VLT/SPHERE in 2018. The modelling also showed evidence of an inner ring.[13] An additional observation with Hubble STIS showed three rings, two spirals and a clump.[14] In 2000 dust was detected around TWA 7 due to excess submillimeter radiation.[15]ALMA observations did however show that most emission come from a background galaxy. The disk was also detected with ALMA.[16] The disk has detected carbon monoxide (CO) gas from ALMA observations, which is likely generated by exocomets. It was the first detection of CO gas in a debris disk around an M-dwarf. This kind of detection is more common around more massive stars.[17]
In 2025 JWST MIRI observations showed a point source that could be a young sub-Jovian planet with a mass of 0.3 MJ (about 100 ME) and a temperature of around 320 Kelvin. The candidate can explain the main ring of the debris disk. It also does not fit the spectrum of a background star or galaxy. If confirmed, it would be the least massive directly imaged exoplanet.[9] The candidate is located in an underdensity in ring 2 that was noticed before. Opposite to the planet candidate is another underdensity, which could be created by orbital resonance. The mass of the candidate was previously predicted to be 2 Neptune masses (about 34 ME) before it was detected.[14][9]
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↑ Webb, R. A.; Zuckerman, B.; Greaves, J. S.; Holland, W. S. (December 2000). "Large, cold dust grains orbiting stars in the TW Hydrae Association". American Astronomical Society, 197th AAS Meeting, Id.08.27. 32: 1410. Bibcode:2000AAS...197.0827W.
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