Dracula’s Chivito: Discovery of a Large Edge-on Protoplanetary Disk with Pan-STARRS

We report the serendipitous discovery of a large edge-on protoplanetary disk in Pan-STARRS (PS1) images. PS1 has five broadband filters designated as g _P1 , r _P1 , i _P1 , z _P1 , and y _P1 with mean wavelengths 4866, 6215, 7545, 8679, and 9633 Å, respectively. The disk’s apparent size in the PS1...

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Published in:	The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Main Authors:	Ciprian T. Berghea, Ammar Bayyari, Michael L. Sitko, Jeremy J. Drake, Ana Mosquera, Cecilia Garraffo, Thomas Petit, Ray W. Russell, Korash D. Assani
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Subjects:	Stellar accretion disks Circumstellar matter Radiative transfer Pre-main sequence stars
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad43e3