Keck/OSIRIS Pa$beta$ high-contrast imaging and updated constraints on PDS~70b


Abstract in English

We present a high-contrast imaging search for Pa$beta$ line emission from protoplanets in the PDS~70 system with Keck/OSIRIS integral field spectroscopy. We applied the high-resolution spectral differential imaging technique to the OSIRIS $J$-band data but did not detect the Pa$beta$ line at the level predicted using the parameters of cite{Hashimoto2020}. This lack of Pa$beta$ emission suggests the MUSE-based study may have overestimated the line width of H$alpha$. We compared our Pa$beta$ detection limits with the previous H$alpha$ flux and H$beta$ limits and estimated $A_{rm V}$ to be $sim0.9$ and 2.0 for PDS~70~b and c respectively. In particular, PDS~70~bs $A_{rm V}$ is much smaller than implied by high-contrast near-infrared studies, which suggests the infrared-continuum photosphere and the hydrogen-emitting regions exist at different heights above the forming planet.

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