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We present a sensitive, multiwavelength submillimeter continuum survey of 153 young stellar objects in the Taurus-Auriga star formation region. The submillimeter detection rate is 61% to a completeness limit of ~10 mJy (3-sigma) at 850…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sean M. Andrews , Jonathan P. Williams

We have obtained Spitzer Space Telescope Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) 24 {\mu}m and 70 {\mu}m observations of 215 nearby, Hipparcos B- and A-type common proper motion single and binary systems in the nearest OB…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Christine H. Chen , Mark Pecaut , Eric E. Mamajek , Kate Y. L. Su , Martin Bitner

We describe a search for infra-red excess emission from dusty circumstellar material around 180,000 stars observed by the Kepler and WISE missions. This study is motivated by i) the potential to find bright warm disks around planet host…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-07 G. M. Kennedy , M. C. Wyatt

(abridged) Debris disks around main sequence stars are produced by the erosion and evaporation of unseen parent bodies. AU Microscopii (GJ 803) is a compelling object to study in the context of disk evolution across different spectral…

High-precision interferometric observations of six early-type main sequence stars known to harbour cold debris discs have been obtained in the near-infrared K band with the FLUOR instrument at the CHARA Array. The measured squared…

This paper reports follow-up photometric and spectroscopic observations, including warm Spitzer IRAC photometry of seven white dwarfs from the SDSS with apparent excess flux in UKIDSS K-band observations. Six of the science targets were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-06 J. Farihi , B. T. Gänsicke , P. R. Steele , J. Girven , M. R. Burleigh , E. Breedt , D. Koester

Determining how long circumstellar disks last is key to understanding the timescale of planet formation. Typically, this is done by measuring the fraction of young stars with infrared-excess, a sign of circumstellar material, in stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Fabian A. Polnitzky , Sebastian Ratzenböck , Josefa E. Großschedl , João Alves

We present near- and mid-infrared photometry and spectroscopy from PAIRITEL, IRTF, and Spitzer of a metallicity-unbiased sample of 117 cool, hydrogen-atmosphere white dwarfs from the Palomar-Green survey and find five with excess radiation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Sara D. Barber , Adam J. Patterson , Mukremin Kilic , S. K. Leggett , P. Dufour , J. S. Bloom , D. L. Starr

We report the discovery of a circumstellar disk around the young A0 star, HR 4796, in thermal infrared imaging carried out at the W.M. Keck Observatory. By fitting a model of the emission from a flat dusty disk to an image at lambda=20.8…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. W. Koerner , M. E. Ressler , M. W. Werner , D. E. Backman

The Herschel open-time key program Disc Emission via a Bias-free Reconnaissance in the Infrared and Sub-millimeter (DEBRIS) is an unbiased survey of the nearest ~100 stars for each stellar type A-M observed with a uniform photometric…

Extreme debris disks (EDDs) are rare systems with peculiarly large amounts of warm dust that may stem from recent giant impacts between planetary embryos during the final phases of terrestrial planet growth. Here we report on the…

[abridged] Protoplanetary disks with AU-scale inner clearings, often referred to as transitional disks, provide a unique sample for understanding disk dissipation mechanisms and possible connections to planet formation. Observations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 James Muzerolle , Lori E. Allen , S. Thomas Megeath , Jesus Hernandez , Robert A. Gutermuth

The presence of debris disks around $\sim$ 1-Gyr-old main sequence stars suggests that an appreciable amount of dust may persist even in mature planetary systems. Here we report the detection of dust emission from 55 Cancri, a star with…

(ABRIDGED) Studies of debris disks have shown that most systems are analogous to the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt. However a rare subset of sun-like stars possess dust which lies in the terrestrial planet region. In this study we aim to determine…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Smith , M. C. Wyatt , W. R. F. Dent

The evolution of a circumstellar disk from its gas-rich protoplanetary stage to its gas-poor debris stage is not understood well. It is apparent that disk clearing progresses from the inside-out on a short time scale and models of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 A. Hardy , C. Caceres , M. R. Schreiber , L. Cieza , R. D. Alexander , H. Canovas , J. P. Williams , Z. Wahhaj

Context: Debris discs orbiting young stars are key to understand dust evolution and the planetary formation process. We take advantage of a recent membership analysis of the 30 Myr nearby open cluster IC 4665 based on the Gaia and DANCe…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Núria Miret-Roig , Nuria Huélamo , Hervé Bouy

The connection between the nature of a protoplanetary disk and that of a debris disk is not well understood. Dust evolution, planet formation, and disk dissipation likely play a role in the processes involved. We aim to reconcile both…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Arnaud Michel , Nienke van der Marel , Brenda Matthews

Thermal emission from debris disks around stars has been measured using targeted and resolved observations. We present an alternative, likelihood-based approach in which temperature maps from the Planck CMB survey at 857 and 545 GHz are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-09 Jacob Nibauer , Eric Baxter , Bhuvnesh Jain

[Abridged] We present two deep surveys of circumstellar discs around solar-type stars at different ages carried out at 350 micron with the CSO and at 1.2 mm with the IRAM 30-m telescope. The aim of this study is to understand the evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Roccatagliata , Th. Henning , S. Wolf , J. Rodmann , S. Corder , J. M. Carpenter , M. Meyer , D. Dowell

We present the results of a search of infrared excess candidates in a comprehensive (29\,000 stars) magnitude limited sample of dwarf stars, spanning the spectral range F2-K0, and brighter than V$=$15 mag. We searched the sample within the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Fernando Cruz-Saenz de Miera , Miguel Chavez , Emanuele Bertone , Olga Vega