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 …

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 …

Abstract AU Microscopii (AU Mic) is the second closest pre-main-sequence star, at a
distance of 9.79 parsecs and with an age of 22 million years. AU Mic possesses a relatively …

Fomalhaut, a bright star 7.7 parsecs (25 light-years) from Earth, harbors a belt of cold dust
with a structure consistent with gravitational sculpting by an orbiting planet. Here, we present …

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 …

An increasing number of observations have shown that gaseous debris discs are not an
exception. However, until now, we only knew of cases around A stars. Here we present the …

We present the first results from the polarimetry mode of the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI),
which uses a new integral field polarimetry architecture to provide high contrast linear …

We have obtained a full suite of Spitzer observations to characterize the debris disk around
HR 8799 and to explore how its properties are related to the recently discovered set of three …

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 …

Following the optical imaging of exoplanet candidate Fomalhaut b (Fom b), we present a
numerical model of how Fomalhaut's debris disk is gravitationally shaped by a single interior …