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Multiwavelength analysis of polarized light in HD 100453

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: HD 100453 disk is a prototypical companion-disk interaction system hosting a pair of spirals and a substellar companion. We present new noncoronagraphic high-contrast imaging observations of HD 100453 with V filter on SPHERE/ZIMPOL. We aim to accurately measure the reflected polarized intensity, the disk intensity, and the degree of polarization at multiwavelength; characterize the dust properties in the disk ring and the companion-driven spiral arms; and search for the radial dependencies of dust scattering properties within the disk. We combined high-contrast imaging data of the reflected light from 0.55 to 2.2 μ m using the V, I', J, and Ks band data of ZIMPOL and IRDIS at VLT/SPHERE. For each observational epoch, we corrected for the smearing effect to derive the intrinsic disk-integrated polarized flux. We applied reference differential imaging to extract the disk intensity for the V and Ks bands using star hopping observations. We then used RADMC-3D radiative transfer modeling with a parametrized Henyey-Greenstein phase function to constrain the dust properties. For the integrated intrinsic polarized flux of the disk, we derived a steady increase with wavelengths from hat Q ̌arphi /I_⋆(V)=0.3% to hat Q ̌arphi /I_⋆(K)=1.2%. We obtained the first V-band total intensity for HD 100453 with ZIMPOL star hopping. The integrated total flux I_ ̊m disk /I_⋆(V)=1.5% increases to I_ ̊m disk /I_⋆(K)=4.8%. Both the total intensity and the polarization fraction show red colors, and the intrinsic maximum degree of polarization increases moderately from 40% to 55%. From the V to Ks band, the dominating dust in the outer disk has an increasing scattering albedo and degree of polarization, while the asymmetry parameter slightly decreases. The outer disk of HD 100453 contains sub-micron-sized low porosity grains/aggregates. The cavity in scattered light is not empty and is replenished with optically thin dust with a maximum size of łeq 0.1μ m. The linear polarization is higher in the spiral region than in the other regions, suggesting different dust properties in those regions.

Source: Astronomy and Astrophysics

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202556172