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Cool debris discs are a relic of the planetesimal formation process around their host star, analogous to the solar system's Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. As such, they can be used as a proxy to probe the origin and formation of planetary systems…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Jonathan P. Marshall , F. Kirchschlager , S. Ertel , J. -C. Augereau , G. M. Kennedy , M. Booth , S. Wolf , B. Montesinos , C. Eiroa , B. Matthews

We present high resolution ($0.11"\times0.06"$) 3mm ALMA observations of the highly inclined transition disk around the star T Cha. Our continuum image reveals multiple dust structures: an inner disk, a spatially resolved dust gap, and an…

We present high-resolution imaging of the young binary T Tauri in 3 mm continuum emission. Compact dust emission with integrated flux density 50 +/- 6 mJy is resolved in an aperture synthesis map at 0.5" resolution and is centered at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. L. Akeson , D. W. Koerner , E. L. N. Jensen

We show that {\em ground-based} direct imaging detection of extra-solar planets is possible with current technology. As an example, we present evidence for a possible planetary companion to the young T Tauri star 1RXSJ104230.3$-$334014…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Neuhaeuser , W. Brandner , A. Eckart , E. Guenther , J. Alves , T. Ott , N. Huelamo , M. Fernandez

This letter reports 12 novel spectroscopic detections of warm circumstellar dust orbiting polluted white dwarfs using JWST MIRI. The disks span two orders of magnitude in fractional infrared brightness and more than double the number of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-31 J. Farihi , K. Y. L. Su , C. Melis , S. J. Kenyon , A. Swan , S. Redfield , M. C. Wyatt , J. H. Debes

Observations of debris disks allow for the study of planetary systems, even where planets have not been detected. However, debris disks are often only characterized by unresolved infrared excesses that resemble featureless blackbodies, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Nicholas P. Ballering , George H. Rieke , Andras Gaspar

The Sun and >15 percent of nearby stars are surrounded by dusty debris disks that must be collisionally replenished by asteroids and comets, as the dust would otherwise be depleted on <10 Myr timescales (ref. 1). Theoretical studies show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paul Kalas , James R. Graham , Mark Clampin

The vertical distribution of pebbles in protoplanetary disks is a fundamental property influencing planet formation, from dust aggregation to the assembly of planetary cores. In the outer region of protoplanetary disks, the intensity of the…

Dust grains in the planet forming regions around young stars are expected to be heavily processed due to coagulation, fragmentation and crystallization. This paper focuses on the crystalline silicate dust grains in protoplanetary disks. As…

Transition disks are considered sites of ongoing planet formation, and their dust and gas distributions could be signposts of embedded planets. The transition disk around the T Tauri star RY Lup has an inner dust cavity and displays a…

(Abridged) We present CARMA observations of the thermal dust emission from the circumstellar disks around the young stars RYTau and DGTau at wavelengths of 1.3mm and 2.8mm. The angular resolution of the maps is as high as 0.15arcsec, or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Andrea Isella , John M. Carpenter , Anneila I. Sargent

Debris discs are typically revealed through excess emission at infrared wavelengths. Most discs exhibit excess at mid- and far-infrared wavelengths, analogous to the solar system's Asteroid and Edgeworth-Kuiper belts. Recently, stars with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 J. P. Marshall , D. V. Cotton , K. Bott , S. Ertel , G. M. Kennedy , M. C. Wyatt , C. del Burgo , O. Absil , J. Bailey , L. Kedziora-Chudczer

Debris discs are a consequence of the planet formation process and constitute the fingerprints of planetesimal systems. Their solar system's counterparts are the asteroid and Edgeworth-Kuiper belts. The DUNES survey aims at detecting…

PDS 70b is the most robustly detected young planet imaged in the gap of a transition disk so far, found at a separation of ~195 mas (~22 au) from its host star and at a position angle of about 155 deg. This system is therefore a unique…

Debris discs are second generation dusty discs formed by collisions of planetesimals. Many debris discs have been found and resolved around hot and solar-type stars. However, only a handful have been discovered around M-stars, and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-01 Patricia Luppe , Alexander V. Krivov , Mark Booth , Jean-François Lestrade

Debris disks, the tenuous rocky and icy remnants of planet formation, are believed to be evidence for planetary systems around other stars. The JCMT/SCUBA-2 debris disk legacy survey 'SCUBA-2 Observations of Nearby Stars' (SONS) observed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 J. P. Marshall , M. Booth , W. S. Holland , B. C. Matthews , J. S. Greaves , B. Zuckerman

We present ALMA continuum and spectral line data at 0.89 mm and 3.2 mm for three disks surrounding young brown dwarfs and very low mass stars in the Taurus star forming region. Dust thermal emission is detected and spatially resolved for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 L. Ricci , L. Testi , A. Natta , A. Scholz , I. de Gregorio-Monsalvo , A. Isella

Disks around brown dwarfs (BDs) are excellent laboratories to study the first steps of planet formation in cold and low-mass disk conditions. The radial-drift velocities of dust particles in BD disks are higher than in disks around more…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 P. Pinilla , L. H. Quiroga-Nuñez , M. Benisty , A. Natta , L. Ricci , Th. Henning , G. van der Plas , T. Birnstiel , L. Testi , K. Ward-Duong

Context. Transition disks (TDs) are circumstellar disks with inner regions highly depleted in dust. TDs are observed in a small fraction of disk-bearing objects at ages of 1-10 Myr. They are important laboratories to study evolutionary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Paola Pinilla , Antonella Natta , Carlo F. Manara , Luca Ricci , Aleks Scholz , Leonardo Testi

Dust trapping accelerates the coagulation of dust particles, and thus it represents an initial step toward the formation of planetesimals. We report $H$-band (1.6 um) linear polarimetric observations and 0.87 mm interferometric continuum…