Discovery of Hα Emission from a Protoplanet Candidate around the Young Star 2MASS J16120668–3010270 with MagAO-X

2MASS J16120668–3010270 (hereafter 2MJ1612) is a young M0 star that hosts a protoplanetary disk in the Upper Scorpius star-forming region. Recent Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of 2MJ1612 show a mildly inclined disk ( i = 37°) with a large dust-depleted gap ( R _ca...

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Published in:	The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Main Authors:	Jialin Li, Laird M. Close, Feng Long, Jared R. Males, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Alycia Weinberger, Katherine Follette, Sean Andrews, John Carpenter, Warren B. Foster, Kyle Van Gorkom, Alexander D. Hedglen, Gregory J. Herczeg, Parker T. Johnson, Maggie Y. Kautz, Jay K. Kueny, Rixin Li, Joshua Liberman, Joseph D. Long, Jennifer Lumbres, Sebastian Marino, Luca Matrà, Eden A. McEwen, Olivier Guyon, Logan A. Pearce, Laura M. Pérez, Paola Pinilla, Lauren Schatz, Yangfan Shi, Katie Twitchell, Kevin Wagner, David Wilner, Ya-Lin Wu, Shangjia Zhang, Zhaohuan Zhu
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Subjects:	Exoplanet astronomy Direct imaging Adaptive optics Exoplanet formation
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/adfcbd

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