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 …

Solar system physics for exoplanet research

J Horner, SR Kane, JP Marshall… - Publications of the …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the past three decades, we have witnessed one of the great revolutions in our
understanding of the cosmos—the dawn of the Exoplanet Era. Where once we knew of just …

A stellar mass dependence of structured disks: a possible link with exoplanet demographics

N van der Marel, GD Mulders - The Astronomical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Gaps in protoplanetary disks have long been hailed as signposts of planet formation.
However, a direct link between exoplanets and disks remains hard to identify. We present a …

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 …

Analysis of the Herschel DEBRIS Sun-like star sample

B Sibthorpe, GM Kennedy, MC Wyatt… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This paper presents a study of circumstellar debris around Sun-like stars using data from the
Herschel DEBRIS Key Programme. DEBRIS is an unbiased survey comprising the nearest∼ …

Solution to the debris disc mass problem: planetesimals are born small?

AV Krivov, MC Wyatt - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Debris belts on the periphery of planetary systems, encompassing the region occupied by
planetary orbits, are massive analogues of the Solar system's Kuiper belt. They are detected …

SONS: The JCMT legacy survey of debris discs in the submillimetre

WS Holland, BC Matthews, GM Kennedy… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Debris discs are evidence of the ongoing destructive collisions between planetesimals, and
their presence around stars also suggests that planets exist in these systems. In this paper …

Debris Disks in the Scorpius–Centaurus OB Association Resolved by ALMA

J Lieman-Sifry, AM Hughes, JM Carpenter… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We present a CO (2-1) and 1240 μm continuum survey of 23 debris disks with
spectral types B9-G1, observed at an angular resolution of 0 farcs 5–1''with the Atacama …

The HOSTS survey—exozodiacal dust measurements for 30 stars

S Ertel, D Defrere, P Hinz, B Mennesson… - The Astronomical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Hunt for Observable Signatures of Terrestrial Systems survey searches for dust
near the habitable zones (HZs) around nearby, bright main-sequence stars. We use nulling …

A gap in the planetesimal disc around HD 107146 and asymmetric warm dust emission revealed by ALMA

S Marino, J Carpenter, MC Wyatt… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
While detecting low-mass exoplanets at tens of au is beyond current instrumentation, debris
discs provide a unique opportunity to study the outer regions of planetary systems. Here, we …