Misaligned protoplanetary disks in a young binary star system

Eric L. N. Jensen () and Rachel Akeson
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Eric L. N. Jensen: Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue
Rachel Akeson: NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, IPAC/Caltech

Nature, 2014, vol. 511, issue 7511, 567-569

Abstract: Observations show that one or both of the protoplanetary disks in the young binary system HK Tauri are significantly inclined to the binary orbital plane, demonstrating that the necessary conditions exist for the misalignment-driven mechanisms thought to produce the unusual orbits of some extrasolar planets.

Date: 2014
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