- Kalas, Paul G;
- Rajan, Abhijith;
- Wang, Jason J;
- Millar-Blanchaer, Maxwell A;
- Duchene, Gaspard;
- Chen, Christine;
- Fitzgerald, Michael P;
- Dong, Ruobing;
- Graham, James R;
- Patience, Jennifer;
- Macintosh, Bruce;
- Murray-Clay, Ruth;
- Matthews, Brenda;
- Rameau, Julien;
- Marois, Christian;
- Chilcote, Jeffrey;
- De Rosa, Robert J;
- Doyon, René;
- Draper, Zachary H;
- Lawler, Samantha;
- Ammons, S Mark;
- Arriaga, Pauline;
- Bulger, Joanna;
- Cotten, Tara;
- Follette, Katherine B;
- Goodsell, Stephen;
- Greenbaum, Alexandra;
- Hibon, Pascale;
- Hinkley, Sasha;
- Hung, Li-Wei;
- Ingraham, Patrick;
- Konapacky, Quinn;
- Lafreniere, David;
- Larkin, James E;
- Long, Douglas;
- Maire, Jérôme;
- Marchis, Franck;
- Metchev, Stan;
- Morzinski, Katie M;
- Nielsen, Eric L;
- Oppenheimer, Rebecca;
- Perrin, Marshall D;
- Pueyo, Laurent;
- Rantakyrö, Fredrik T;
- Ruffio, Jean-Baptiste;
- Saddlemyer, Leslie;
- Savransky, Dmitry;
- Schneider, Adam C;
- Sivaramakrishnan, Anand;
- Soummer, Rémi;
- Song, Inseok;
- Thomas, Sandrine;
- Vasisht, Gautam;
- Ward-Duong, Kimberly;
- Wiktorowicz, Sloane J;
- Wolff, Schuyler G
We present the first scattered light detections of the HD 106906 debris disk using the Gemini/Gemini Planet Imager in the infrared and Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Advanced Camera for Surveys in the optical. HD 106906 is a 13 Myr old F5V star in the Sco-Cen association, with a previously detected planet-mass candidate HD 106906b projected 650 AU from the host star. Our observations reveal a near edge-on debris disk that has a central cleared region with radius ∼50 AU, and an outer extent >500 AU. The HST data show that the outer regions are highly asymmetric, resembling the "needle" morphology seen for the HD 15115 debris disk. The planet candidate is oriented ∼21° away from the position angle of the primary's debris disk, strongly suggesting non-coplanarity with the system. We hypothesize that HD 106906b could be dynamically involved in the perturbation of the primary's disk, and investigate whether or not there is evidence for a circumplanetary dust disk or cloud that is either primordial or captured from the primary. We show that both the existing optical properties and near-infrared colors of HD 106906b are weakly consistent with this possibility, motivating future work to test for the observational signatures of dust surrounding the planet.