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تسجيل مستخدم جديد1.3 mm ALMA Observations of the Fomalhaut Debris System
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We present ALMA Band 6 observations (1.3 mm/233 GHz) of Fomalhaut and its debris disc. The observations achieve a sensitivity of 17 $mu$Jy and a resolution of 0.28 arcsec (2.1 au at a distance of 7.66 pc), which are the highest resolution observations to date of the millimetre grains in Fomalhauts main debris ring. The ring is tightly constrained to $139^{+2}_{-3}$ au with a FWHM of $13pm3$ au, following a Gaussian profile. The millimetre spectral index is constrained to $alpha_{mm} = -2.62pm0.12$. We explore fitting debris disc models in the image plane, as well as fitting models using visibility data directly. The results are compared and the potential advantages/disadvantages of each approach are discussed. The detected central emission is indistinguishable from a point source, with a most probable flux of $0.90pm 0.12$ mJy (including calibration uncertainties). This implies that any inner debris structure, as was inferred from far-Infrared observations, must contribute little to the total central emission. Moreover, the stellar flux is less than 70% of that predicted by extrapolating a black body from the constrained stellar photosphere temperature. This result emphasizes that unresolved inner debris components cannot be fully characterized until the behaviour of the host stars intrinsic stellar emission at millimetre wavelengths is properly understood.
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