The Radio Continuum Source Projected Near HR 8799
Luis F. Rodriguez, Luis A. Zapata
arXiv:2407.05479v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: HR 8799 is an A5/F0 V star where exoplanets were first directly imaged. Four exoplanets were found within $simeq 2rlap.{”}0$ from the star. Here we report the VLA detection of a faint (19.1$pm$2.7 $mu$Jy) radio continuum (3.0 GHz) source projected at $simeq 2rlap.{”}2$ from the star. The sl a priori rm probability of finding a background source with this flux density within a radius of $2rlap.{”}2$ is only 0.0046. However, the astrometry made with the VLA and ALMA images, separated by 5.5 years, indicates no significant proper motions and rules out the association of the radio source with the HR 8799 system and suggests it is a background millimeter galaxy with dust emission in the millimeter and partially thick synchrotron emission in the centimeter.arXiv:2407.05479v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: HR 8799 is an A5/F0 V star where exoplanets were first directly imaged. Four exoplanets were found within $simeq 2rlap.{”}0$ from the star. Here we report the VLA detection of a faint (19.1$pm$2.7 $mu$Jy) radio continuum (3.0 GHz) source projected at $simeq 2rlap.{”}2$ from the star. The sl a priori rm probability of finding a background source with this flux density within a radius of $2rlap.{”}2$ is only 0.0046. However, the astrometry made with the VLA and ALMA images, separated by 5.5 years, indicates no significant proper motions and rules out the association of the radio source with the HR 8799 system and suggests it is a background millimeter galaxy with dust emission in the millimeter and partially thick synchrotron emission in the centimeter.