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Although debris discs have been detected around a significant number of main-sequence stars, only a few of them are known to harbour hot dust in their inner part where terrestrial planets may have formed. Thanks to infrared interferometric…

Young and dynamically active planetary systems can form disks of debris that are easier to image than the planets themselves. The morphology and evolution of these disks can help to infer the properties of the putative planets responsible…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Aidan Gibbs , Kevin Wagner , Daniel Apai , Attila Mo'or , Thayne Currie , Mickael Bonnefoy , Maud Langlois , Carey Lisse

We present the first millimeter-wave aperture synthesis map of dust around a main sequence star. A 3'' resolution image of 1.3 mm continuum emission from Vega reveals a clump of emission 12'' from the star at PA 45 deg, consistent with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. W. Koerner , A. I. Sargent , N. A. Ostroff

Dusty debris discs around main sequence stars are thought to be the result of continuous collisional grinding of planetesimals in the system. The majority of these systems are unresolved and analysis of the dust properties is limited by the…

Through Spitzer Space Telescope's observations, Su et al. (2005) show that the Vega debris disc is dominated by grains which are small enough to be blown out by radiation pressure. This implies the lifetime of Vega debris disc's grains is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-09 Ing-Guey Jiang , Li-Chin Yeh

We present Herschel far-infrared and submillimeter maps of the debris disk associated with the HR 8799 planetary system. We resolve the outer disk emission at 70, 100, 160 and 250 um and detect the disk at 350 and 500 um. A smooth model…

We present mid-infrared interferometric observations of the Herbig Ae star R CrA obtained with MIDI at the VLTI using several projected baselines in the UT2-UT3 configuration. The observations show resolved circumstellar emission in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Correia , R. Koehler , G. Meeus , H. Zinnecker

The dust production in debris discs by grinding collisions of planetesimals requires their orbits to be stirred. However, stirring levels remain largely unconstrained, and consequently the stirring mechanisms as well. This work shows how…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Sebastian Marino

We present far-infrared and sub-millimeter images of the eta Crv debris disk system obtained with Herschel and SCUBA-2, as well as Hubble Space Telescope visible and near-infrared coronagraphic images. In the 70 micron Herschel image, we…

A decade of surveys has hinted at a possible higher occurrence rate of debris discs in systems hosting low mass planets. This could be due to common favourable forming conditions for rocky planets close in and planetesimals at large radii.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 S. Marino , M. C. Wyatt , G. M. Kennedy , W. Holland , L. Matrà , A. Shannon , R. J. Ivison

A debris ring around the star HD 207129 (G0V; d = 16.0 pc) has been imaged in scattered visible light with the ACS coronagraph on the Hubble Space Telescope and in thermal emission using MIPS on the Spitzer Space Telescope at 70 microns…

Asteroids and comets (planetesimals) are created in gas- and dust-rich protoplanetary discs. The presence of these planetesimals around main-sequence stars is usually inferred from the detection of excess continuum emission at infrared…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 S. Hengst , J. P. Marshall , J. Horner , S. C. Marsden

We present new MIDI interferometric and VISIR spectroscopic observations of HD113766 and HD172555. Additionally we present VISIR 11um and 18um imaging observations of HD113766. These sources represent the youngest (16Myr and 12Myr old…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 R. Smith , M. C. Wyatt , C. A. Haniff

We present the first scattered light image of the debris disk around HD 129590, a ~1.3 M$_\odot$ G1V member of the Scorpius Centaurus association with age ~10-16 Myr. The debris disk is imaged with the high contrast imaging instrument…

Debris disks are tenuous, dusty belts surrounding main sequence stars generated by collisions between planetesimals. HD 206893 is one of only two stars known to host a directly imaged brown dwarf orbiting interior to its debris ring, in…

Thermal imaging of debris disks is resolving the vertical height in an increasing number of systems, enabling the use of the vertical structure to decode the dynamical state of the planetary system. In this study, we examine the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Yinuo Han , Mark C. Wyatt , Marija R. Jankovic , Andrew Zhang , William R. F. Dent , A Meredith Hughes , Luca Matrà

The presence of a debris disc around the Gyr-old solar-type star $\zeta^2\,\mathrm{Reticuli}$ was suggested by the $\mathit{Spitzer}$ infrared excess detection. Follow-up observations with $\mathit{Herschel}$/PACS revealed a double-lobed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 V. Faramaz , G. Bryden , K. R. Stapelfeldt , M. Booth , A. Bayo , H. Beust , S. Casassus , J. Cuadra , A. Hales , A. M. Hughes , J. Olofsson , K. Y. L. Su , D. J. Wilner

We present observations of the HD 15115 debris disk from ALMA at 1.3 mm that capture this intriguing system with the highest resolution ($0.\!\!^{\prime\prime}6$ or $29$ AU) at millimeter wavelengths to date. This new ALMA image shows…