A disk around the planetary-mass companion GSC06214-00210b: Clues about the formation of gas giants on wide orbits

Bowler, Brendan P; Liu, Michael C; Kraus, Adam L; Mann, Andrew W; Ireland, Michael

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A disk around the planetary-mass companion GSC06214-00210b: Clues about the formation of gas giants on wide orbits

Date

2011

Authors

Bowler, Brendan P

Liu, Michael C

Kraus, Adam L

Mann, Andrew W

Ireland, Michael

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

We present Keck OSIRIS 1.1-1.8 μm adaptive optics integral field spectroscopy of the planetary-mass companion to GSC 06214-00210, a member of the 5Myr Upper Scorpius OB association. We infer a spectral type of L0 1, and our spectrum exhibits multiple sig