{
  "id": "1212.1459",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2012-12-06T21:00:04.000Z",
  "updated": "2012-12-06T21:00:04.000Z",
  "title": "Coronagraphic observations of Fomalhaut at solar system scales",
  "authors": [
    "M. A. Kenworthy",
    "T. Meshkat",
    "S. P. Quanz",
    "J. H. Girard",
    "M. R. Meyer",
    "M. Kasper"
  ],
  "comment": "18 pages, 4 figures, to be published in ApJ",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.SR",
    "astro-ph.EP"
  ],
  "abstract": "We report on a search for low mass companions within 10 AU of the star Fomalhaut, using narrow band observations at 4.05 microns obtained with the Apodizing Phase Plate (APP) coronagraph on the VLT/NaCo. Our observations place a model dependent upper mass limit of 12-20 Jupiter masses from 4 to 10 AU, covering the semi-major axis search space between interferometric imaging measurements and other direct imaging non-detections. These observations rule out models where the large semi-major axis for the putative candidate companion Fomalhaut b is explained by dynamical scattering from a more massive companion in the inner stellar system, where such giant planets are thought to form.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2012-12-06T21:00:04.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "solar system scales",
      "coronagraphic observations",
      "model dependent upper mass limit",
      "semi-major axis search space",
      "inner stellar system"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1088/0004-637X/764/1/7",
      "journal": "The Astrophysical Journal",
      "year": 2013,
      "month": "Feb",
      "volume": 764,
      "number": 1,
      "pages": 7
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 18,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1206266,
      "adsabs": "2013ApJ...764....7K"
    }
  }
}