2000/12/21 by Nick Gorkavyi, Gorkavyi, Nick, Sara Heap +10
Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #FOS: Physical sciences #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0012470
4 pages, incl. 2 Figures. To be published in "Planetary Systems in the Universe: Observation, Formation, and Evolution" (A.J. Penny, P. Artymowicz, and S.S. Russell, eds.). Proc. IAU Symp. No. 202, ASP Conference Series, vol. xxx, (2001)
arxiv created 2000/12/21 · openalex publication_date 2000/12/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2022/09/30 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Our efficient numerical approach has been applied to modeling the asymmetric\ncircumstellar dust disk around Beta Pictoris as observed with the HST/STIS. We\npresent a new model on the origin of the warping of the Beta Pic disk. We\nsuggest that the observed warp is formed by the gravitational influence of a\nplanet with a mass of about 10 masses of Earth, at a distance of 70 AU, and a\nsmall inclination (\∼ 2.5^\∘) of the planetary orbit to the main dust\ndisk. Results of our modeling are compared with the STIS observations.\n