# A planet on an inclined orbit as an explanation of the warp in the β Pictoris disc

@article{Mouillet1997APO,
title={A planet on an inclined orbit as an explanation of the warp in the $\beta$ Pictoris disc},
author={David Mouillet and John D. Larwood and John C. B. Papaloizou and Anne-Marie Lagrange},
journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
year={1997},
volume={292},
pages={896-904}
}
We consider the deformation that has recently been observed in the inner part of the circumstellar disc around f3 Pictoris with the HST. Our recent ground-based, adaptive optics coronographic observations confirm that the inner disc is warped. We investigate the hypothesis that a yet undetected planet is responsible for the observed warp, through simulations of the effect of the gravitational perturbation resulting from a massive companion on the disc. The physical processes assumed in the… Expand
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