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 …

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 …

Spiral arms in the asymmetrically illuminated disk of MWC 758 and constraints on giant planets

CA Grady, T Muto, J Hashimoto… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first near-IR scattered light detection of the transitional disk associated with
the Herbig Ae star MWC 758 using data obtained as part of the Strategic Exploration of …

Probing for exoplanets hiding in dusty debris disks: disk imaging, characterization, and exploration with HST/STIS multi-roll coronagraphy

G Schneider, CA Grady, DC Hines… - The Astronomical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Spatially resolved scattered-light images of circumstellar debris in exoplanetary systems
constrain the physical properties and orbits of the dust particles in these systems. They also …

Exocometary gas in the HD 181327 debris ring

S Marino, L Matrà, C Stark, MC Wyatt… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Near-infrared scattered light properties of the HR 4796 A dust ring-A measured scattering phase function from 13.6° to 166.6°

J Milli, A Vigan, D Mouillet, AM Lagrange… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Context. HR 4796 A is surrounded by a debris disc, observed in scattered light as an
inclined ring with a high surface brightness. Past observations have raised several …

Retired A stars and their companions: exoplanets orbiting three intermediate-mass subgiants

JA Johnson, DA Fischer, GW Marcy… - The Astrophysical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We report precision Doppler measurements of three intermediate-mass subgiants obtained
at Lick and Keck Observatories. All three stars show variability in their radial velocities …

Maximizing the ExoEarth candidate yield from a future direct imaging mission

CC Stark, A Roberge, A Mandell… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
ExoEarth yield is a critical science metric for future exoplanet imaging missions. Here we
estimate exoEarth candidate yield using single visit completeness for a variety of mission …

Steady state evolution of debris disks around a stars

MC Wyatt, R Smith, KYL Su, GH Rieke… - The Astrophysical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper confronts a simple analytical model for the steady state evolution of debris disks
due to collisions with Spitzer observations of dust around main-sequence A stars. It is …