The protoplanetary disc around HD 169142: circumstellar or circumbinary?
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2021-12
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Stellar binaries represent a substantial fraction of stellar systems, especially among young stellar objects. Accordingly, binaries
play an important role in setting the architecture of a large number of protoplanetary discs. Binaries in coplanar and polar
orientations with respect to the circumbinary disc are stable configurations and could induce non-axisymmetric structures in
the dust and gas distributions. In this work, we suggest that the structures shown in the central region of the protoplanetary
disc HD 169142 are produced by the presence of an inner stellar binary and a circumbinary (P-type) planet. We find that a
companion with a mass-ratio of 0:1, semi-major axis of 9:9 au, eccentricity of 0.2, and inclination of 90°, together with a 2 MJ
coplanar planet on a circular orbit at 45 au reproduce the structures at the innermost ring observed at 1.3 mm and the shape
of spiral features in scattered light observations. The model predicts changes in the disc’s dust structure, and star’s astrometric
parameters, which would allow testing its veracity by monitoring this system over the next 20 years.
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Protoplanetary discs, Hydrodynamics, Methods: numerical, Binaries (including multiple): close, Planetdisc interactions, Stars: individual: HD 169142