Debris disks: structure, composition, and variability

AM Hughes, G Duchêne… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Debris disks are tenuous, dust-dominated disks commonly observed around stars over a
wide range of ages. Those around main sequence stars are analogous to the Solar System's …

Evolution of debris disks

MC Wyatt - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Circumstellar dust exists around several hundred main sequence stars. For the youngest
stars, that dust could be a remnant of the protoplanetary disk. Mostly it is inferred to be …

A planetesimal orbiting within the debris disc around a white dwarf star

CJ Manser, BT Gänsicke, S Eggl, M Hollands… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Many white dwarf stars show signs of having accreted smaller bodies, implying that they
may host planetary systems. A small number of these systems contain gaseous debris discs …

Debris disk results from the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey's polarimetric imaging campaign

TM Esposito, P Kalas, MP Fitzgerald… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the results of a∼ 4 yr direct imaging survey of 104 stars to resolve and
characterize circumstellar debris disks in scattered light as part of the Gemini Planet Imager …

Predictions for the secondary CO, C and O gas content of debris discs from the destruction of volatile-rich planetesimals

Q Kral, L Matra, MC Wyatt… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
This paper uses observations of dusty debris discs, including a growing number of gas
detections in these systems, to test our understanding of the origin and evolution of this …

Debris disks: seeing dust, thinking of planetesimals and planets

AV Krivov - Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Debris disks are optically thin, almost gas-free dusty disks observed around a significant
fraction of main-sequence stars older than about 10 Myr. Since the circumstellar dust is short …

Detection of exocometary CO within the 440 Myr old fomalhaut belt: a similar CO+ CO2 ice abundance in exocomets and solar system comets

L Matrà, MA MacGregor, P Kalas… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Recent Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations present
mounting evidence for the presence of exocometary gas released within Kuiper Belt analogs …

Observations of Herbig Ae/Be stars with Herschel/PACS-The atomic and molecular contents of their protoplanetary discs

G Meeus, B Montesinos, I Mendigutía, I Kamp… - Astronomy & …, 2012 - aanda.org
We observed a sample of 20 representative Herbig Ae/Be stars and 5 A-type debris discs
with PACS onboard Herschel, as part of the GAS in Protoplanetary Systems (GASPS) …

A 40 Myr old gaseous circumstellar disk at 49 Ceti: massive co-rich comet clouds at young A-type stars

B Zuckerman, I Song - The Astrophysical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The gaseous molecular disk that orbits the main-sequence A-type star 49 Ceti has been
known since 1995, but the stellar age and the origin of the observed carbon monoxide …

ALMA observations of the molecular gas in the debris disk of the 30 Myr old star HD 21997

Á Kóspál, A Moór, A Juhász, P Ábrahám… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The 30 Myr old A3-type star HD 21997 is one of the two known debris dust disks having a
measurable amount of cold molecular gas. With the goal of understanding the physical state …