# First millimeter detection of the disk around a young, isolated, planetary-mass object

## TL;DR

This study reports the first millimeter detection of a disk around a young, isolated planetary-mass object, providing insights into its properties and formation mechanisms by comparing it with higher-mass objects.

## Contribution

It presents the first millimeter continuum detection of a disk around a free-floating planetary-mass object, expanding understanding of disk properties at planetary masses.

## Key findings

- Detected the disk at 233 GHz with ALMA.
- Estimated disk mass between 0.07 and 0.63 Earth masses.
- Disk properties follow a scaling relation with the central object mass.

## Abstract

OTS44 is one of only four free-floating planets known to have a disk. We have previously shown that it is the coolest and least massive known free-floating planet ($\sim$12 M$_{\rm Jup}$) with a substantial disk that is actively accreting. We have obtained Band 6 (233 GHz) ALMA continuum data of this very young disk-bearing object. The data shows a clear unresolved detection of the source. We obtained disk-mass estimates via empirical correlations derived for young, higher-mass, central (substellar) objects. The range of values obtained are between 0.07 and 0.63 M$_{\oplus}$ (dust masses). We compare the properties of this unique disk with those recently reported around higher-mass (brown dwarfs) young objects in order to infer constraints on its mechanism of formation. While extreme assumptions on dust temperature yield disk-mass values that could slightly diverge from the general trends found for more massive brown dwarfs, a range of sensible values provide disk masses compatible with a unique scaling relation between $M_{\rm dust}$ and $M_{*}$ through the substellar domain down to planetary masses.