CE Antliae

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CE Antliae
High-contrast coronograph image of TWA 7b (weic2512).jpg
VLT and MIRI observations of the disk and planet candidate around CE Antliae [1]
Observation data
Epoch J2000       Equinox J2000
Constellation Antlia
Right ascension 10h 42m 30.10s [2]
Declination −33° 40′ 16.2″ [2]
Apparent magnitude  (V)10.91±0.07 [3]
Characteristics
Evolutionary stage T Tauri star [4]
Spectral type M1 [4]
Variable type rotational variable, [5] flare star [6]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)10.81±4.41 [2] km/s
Proper motion (μ)RA: −118.751(23) mas/yr [2]
Dec.: −19.648(26) mas/yr [2]
Parallax (π)29.3277±0.0273  mas [2]
Distance 111.2 ± 0.1  ly
(34.10 ± 0.03  pc)
Absolute magnitude  (MV)+9.0 [7]
Details
Mass 0.46±0.09 [8]   M☉
Radius 0.92±0.12 [8]   R☉
Luminosity 0.115±0.019 [8]   L☉
Surface gravity (log g)4.18±0.17 [8]   cgs
Temperature 3509±116 [8]   K
Rotation 4.92 [5] days
Rotational velocity (v sin i)63.2 [5]  km/s
Age 6.4±1.1 [9]   Myr
Other designations
TWA 7, CE Ant, TYC  7190-2111-1, ASAS  J104230-3340.3, GSC  07190-02111, 2MASS  J10423011-3340162, RX  J104230.3-334014, TIC  54147487, WISE  J104230.01-334016.4, Gaia  DR2 5444751795151480320
Database references
SIMBAD data

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. [10]

Contents

A light curve for CE Antliae, plotted from TESS data. The star's rotation period is marked in red. CEAntLightCurve.png
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. [4] The detection of molecular hydrogen is interpreted as a weak sign of accretion of gas near the star. [12] A giant x-ray flare was detected on 2010-09-07 with MAXI/GSC on the ISS. [6]

Planetary system

TWA 7 disk with Gemini South telescope TWA 7 (noirlab2014g).jpg
TWA 7 disk with Gemini South telescope

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. [13] 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. [14] An additional observation with Hubble STIS showed three rings, two spirals and a clump. [15] In 2000 dust was detected around TWA 7 due to excess of submillimeter radiation. [16] ALMA observations did however show that most emission come from a background galaxy. The disk was also detected with ALMA. [17] The disk has detected carbon monoxide (CO) gas according to 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. [18]

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 M🜨) and a temperature of around 320  K (47  °C ). The candidate can explain the main ring of the debris disk. It also does not fit the spectrum of a background star. It could be consistent with an intermediate-redshift star-forming galaxy, but the probability of such a galaxy appearing that close to TWA 7 is estimated to be 0.34%. [10] If confirmed as a planet, it would be the least massive directly imaged exoplanet. [10] The candidate is located in an underdensity in ring 2 that was noticed before. Opposite to the planet candidate is another underdensity region, which could be created by orbital resonance. The mass of the candidate was previously predicted to be 2 Neptune masses (about 34 M🜨) before it was detected. [15] [10]

This candidate planet was independently detected by observations taken with the NIRCam instrument aboard JWST. The observations strongly support a planetary nature for this object, finding a background galaxy to be unlikely. The planet's mass could be similar to Neptune's. A second point-like source was also detected, but it needs follow-up observations to determine its nature. [19]

The CE Antliae planetary system [15] [10]
Companion
(in order from star)		 Mass Semimajor axis
(AU)		 Orbital period
(years)		 Eccentricity Inclination Radius
Ring 124.49±0.04 AU ——
b(candidate)0.3 MJ 52550———
Ring 252.38±0.12 AU ——
Ring 3101+2
−3 AU 		——

See also

Other M dwarfs with debris disks

References

  1. ↑ "Webb captures evidence of a lightweight planet around TWA 7". esawebb.org. 25 June 2025. Retrieved 26 June 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Vallenari, A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2023). "Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the content and survey properties". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 674: A1. arXiv: 2208.00211 . Bibcode:2023A&A...674A...1G. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243940 . S2CID   244398875. Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR.
  3. ↑ Høg, E.; Fabricius, C.; Makarov, V. V.; Urban, S.; Corbin, T.; Wycoff, G.; Bastian, U.; Schwekendiek, P.; Wicenec, A. (2000). "The Tycho-2 catalogue of the 2.5 million brightest stars". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 355. Bibcode:2000A&A...355L..27H.
  4. 1 2 3 Webb, R. A.; Zuckerman, B.; Platais, I.; Patience, J.; White, R. J.; Schwartz, M. J.; McCarthy, C. (1999-02-01). "Discovery of Seven T Tauri Stars and a Brown Dwarf Candidatein the Nearby TW Hydrae Association". The Astrophysical Journal. 512 (1): L63 –L67. arXiv: astro-ph/9812189 . Bibcode:1999ApJ...512L..63W. doi:10.1086/311856. ISSN   0004-637X.
  5. 1 2 3 Yamashita, Mai; Itoh, Yoichi; Takagi, Yuhei (November 2024). "Chromospheric Mg I emission lines of pre-main-sequence stars". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 691: A304. arXiv: 2410.03087 . Bibcode:2024A&A...691A.304Y. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202452025. ISSN   0004-6361.
  6. 1 2 Uzawa, Akiko; Tsuboi, Yohko; Morii, Mikio; Yamazaki, Kyohei; Kawai, Nobuyuki; Matsuoka, Masaru; Nakahira, Satoshi; Serino, Motoko; Matsumura, Takanori; Mihara, Tatehiro; Tomida, Hiroshi; Ueda, Yoshihiro; Sugizaki, Mutsumi; Ueno, Shiro; Daikyuji, Arata (2011-11-25). "A Large X-Ray Flare from a Single Weak-Lined T Tauri Star TWA-7 Detected with MAXI GSC". Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan. 63 (sp3): S713 –S716. arXiv: 1108.5897 . Bibcode:2011PASJ...63S.713U. doi:10.1093/pasj/63.sp3.S713. ISSN   0004-6264.
  7. ↑ Bell, Cameron P. M.; Mamajek, Eric E.; Naylor, Tim (2015). "A self-consistent, absolute isochronal age scale for young moving groups in the solar neighbourhood". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 454 (1): 593. arXiv: 1508.05955 . Bibcode:2015MNRAS.454..593B. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stv1981 .
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 Stassun, Keivan G.; Oelkers, Ryan J.; Paegert, Martin; Torres, Guillermo; Pepper, Joshua; Lee, Nathan De; Collins, Kevin; Latham, David W.; Muirhead, Philip S.; Chittidi, Jay; Rojas-Ayala, Bárbara; Fleming, Scott W.; Rose, Mark E.; Tenenbaum, Peter; Ting, Eric B. (2019-09-09). "The Revised TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List". The Astronomical Journal. 158 (4): 138. arXiv: 1905.10694 . Bibcode:2019AJ....158..138S. doi: 10.3847/1538-3881/ab3467 . ISSN   0004-6256.
  9. ↑ Binks, A. S.; Jeffries, R. D.; Wright, N. J. (2020). "A kinematically hot population of young stars in the solar neighbourhood". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 494 (2): 2429. arXiv: 2003.13369 . Bibcode:2020MNRAS.494.2429B. doi: 10.1093/mnras/staa909 .
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 Lagrange, A.-M.; Wilkinson, C.; Mâlin, M.; Boccaletti, A.; Perrot, C.; Matrà, L.; Combes, F.; Rouan, D.; Beust, H. (25 June 2025). "Evidence for a sub-Jovian planet in the young TWA 7 disk". Nature . 642 (8069): 905–908. arXiv: 2502.15081 . Bibcode:2025Natur.642..905L. doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09150-4 . PMC   12221965 . PMID   40562924.
  11. ↑ "MAST: Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes". Space Telescope Science Institute. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  12. ↑ Flagg, Laura; Johns-Krull, Christopher M.; France, Kevin; Herczeg, Gregory; Najita, Joan; Carpenter, John M.; Kenyon, Scott J. (2021-11-01). "Detection of H2 in the TWA 7 System: A Probable Circumstellar Origin". The Astrophysical Journal. 921 (1): 86. arXiv: 2108.08327 . Bibcode:2021ApJ...921...86F. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac1d4c . ISSN   0004-637X.
  13. ↑ Choquet, Élodie; Perrin, Marshall D.; Chen, Christine H.; Soummer, Rémi; Pueyo, Laurent; Hagan, James B.; Gofas-Salas, Elena; Rajan, Abhijith; Golimowski, David A.; Hines, Dean C.; Schneider, Glenn; Mazoyer, Johan; Augereau, Jean-Charles; Debes, John; Stark, Christopher C.; Wolff, Schuyler; n'Diaye, Mamadou; Hsiao, Kevin (2016). "First Images of Debris Disks around TWA 7, TWA 25, HD 35650, and HD 377". The Astrophysical Journal. 817 (1): L2. arXiv: 1512.02220 . Bibcode:2016ApJ...817L...2C. doi: 10.3847/2041-8205/817/1/L2 .`
  14. ↑ Olofsson, J.; van Holstein, R. G.; Boccaletti, A.; Janson, M.; Thébault, P.; Gratton, R.; Lazzoni, C.; Kral, Q.; Bayo, A.; Canovas, H.; Caceres, C.; Ginski, C.; Pinte, C.; Asensio-Torres, R.; Chauvin, G. (September 2018). "Resolving faint structures in the debris disk around TWA 7". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 617: A109. arXiv: 1804.01929 . Bibcode:2018A&A...617A.109O. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201832583. ISSN   0004-6361.
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  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ Bayo, A; Olofsson, J; Matrà, L; Beamín, J C; Gallardo, J; de Gregorio-Monsalvo, I; Booth, M; Zamora, C; Iglesias, D; Henning, Th; Schreiber, M R; Cáceres, C (July 2019). "Sub-millimetre non-contaminated detection of the disc around TWA 7 by ALMA". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 486 (4): 5552–5557. arXiv: 1806.09252 . Bibcode:2019MNRAS.486.5552B. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz1133 . ISSN   0035-8711.
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