{"paper":{"title":"The protoplanetary system HD 100546 in H$\\alpha$ polarized light from SPHERE/ZIMPOL. A bar-like structure across the disk gap?","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["astro-ph.EP","astro-ph.IM"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.SR","authors_text":"A. Cheetham, A. Garufi, B. Norris, F.A. Olguin, I. Mendigut\\'ia, N. Hu\\'elamo, P. Tuthill, R.D. Oudmaijer, S.L. Lumsden, W.J. de Wit","submitted_at":"2017-10-31T18:00:45Z","abstract_excerpt":"HD 100546 is one of the few known pre-main-sequence stars that may host a planetary system in its disk. We analyze new VLT/SPHERE/ZIMPOL polarimetric images of HD 100546 with filters in H$\\alpha$ and the adjacent continuum. We have probed the disk gap and the surface layers of the outer disk, covering a region < 500 mas (< 55 au at 109 pc) from the star, at an angular resolution of ~ 20 mas. Our data show an asymmetry: the SE and NW regions of the outer disk are more polarized than the SW and NE. This can be explained from a preferential scattering angle close to 90$^o$, consistent with previo"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1711.00023","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}