Structure of the Stellar Neighborhood of CQ Tau in the Presence of a Companion in an Elongated Orbit

arXiv:2607.09272 · astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-07-10 · Read on arXiv

Tatiana Demidova

astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-07-10

Comments: 14 pages, 9 figures, 1 table

Journal ref: Astrophysical Bulletin, Volume 80, Issue 1, pp. 38-48 (2025)

DOI: 10.1134/S1990341325600085

Project page: https://exoplanet.eu

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

The gist: There are indirect signs of the presence of a companion near the star CQ,Tau.

Abstract

There are indirect signs of the presence of a companion near the star CQ,Tau. A period of 10;years was found in the brightness changes. The image of the disk shows an extensive cavity with a size of about 25 AU, surrounded by a dust ring with a distribution maximum near 53 AU. A simulation of the interaction of dust and gas in the vicinity of the star with the CQ,Tau parameters was carried out, assuming the existence of a companion in an orbit with a period of 10;years. It was shown that an M-class star in a highly elongated orbit is capable of forming a region of reduced density around the center of mass of the system, with a size close to the observed one. However, the dust ring-like structure in this case is located noticeably closer to the star than observed. Evidence has been obtained that a massive planet in an outer, relatively binary orbit, could form a ring-shaped dust structure at a distance similar to that observed.

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