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American Astronomical Society, Astrophysical Journal, 1(684), p. L41-L44, 2008

DOI: 10.1086/592018

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Color Gradients Detected in the HD 15115 Circumstellar Disk

Journal article published in 2008 by John H. Debes, Alycia J. Weinberger ORCID, Inseok Song
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

We report HST/NICMOS coronagraphic images of the HD 15115 circumstellar disk at 1.1\micron. We find a similar morphology to that seen in the visible and at H band--an edge-on disk that is asymmetric in surface brightness. Several aspects of the 1.1\micron data are different, highlighting the need for multi-wavelength images of each circumstellar disk. We find a flattening to the western surface brightness profile at 1.1\micron interior to 2\arcsec (90 AU) and a warp in the western half of the disk. We measure the surface brightness profiles of the two disk lobes and create a measure of the dust scattering efficiency between 0.55-1.65\micron at 1\arcsec, 2\arcsec, and 3\arcsec. At 2\arcsec the western lobe has a neutral spectrum up to 1.1\micron and a strong absorption or blue spectrum $>$1.1\micron, while a blue trend is seen in the eastern lobe. At 1\arcsec the disk has a red F110W-H color in both lobes. ; Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, emulateapj; accepted to ApJL