Giant Impacts and Debris Disk Morphology

JW Jones, E Chiang, G Duchêne, P Kalas… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Certain debris disks have nonaxisymmetric shapes in scattered light which are unexplained.
The appearance of a disk depends on how its constituent Keplerian ellipses are arranged …

Formation of Gaps in Self-gravitating Debris Disks by Secular Resonance in a Single-planet System. II. Toward a Self-consistent Model

AA Sefilian, RR Rafikov, MC Wyatt - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
High-resolution observations of several debris disks reveal structures such as gaps and
spirals, suggestive of gravitational perturbations induced by underlying planets. Most …

Self-gravity of debris discs can strongly change the outcomes of interactions with inclined planets

PP Poblete, T Löhne, TD Pearce… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Drastic changes in protoplanets' orbits could occur in the early stages of planetary systems
through interactions with other planets and their surrounding protoplanetary or debris discs …

Formation History of HD 106906 and the Vertical War** of Debris Disks by an External Inclined Companion

NWH Moore, G Li, L Hassenzahl… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
HD 106906 is a planetary system that hosts a wide-orbit companion, as well as an eccentric
and flat debris disk, which hold important constraints on its formation and subsequent …

A JWST MIRI MRS View of the η Tel Debris Disk and Its Brown Dwarf Companion

Y Chai, CH Chen, K Worthen, A Li… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We report JWST Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) Medium Resolution Spectrograph
(MRS) observations of the β Pic moving-group member, η Tel A, along with its brown dwarf …

Massive Debris Disks May Hinder Secular Stirring by Planetary Companions: An Analytic Proof of Concept

AA Sefilian - The Astrophysical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Debris disks or exo-Kuiper belts, detected through their thermal or scattered emission from
their dusty components, are ubiquitous around main-sequence stars. Since dust grains are …

[KSIĄŻKA][B] The Study of Extrasolar Planetary Systems Through Direct Imaging and Infrared Instrumentation

RA Lopez - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Direct imaging and spectroscopy is fundamental to understanding the composition,
evolution, and formation of exoplanets, and as such these techniques have been given high …

[CYTOWANIE][C] Planetesimal Belts in Misaligned Wide Stellar Binaries

S Young - 2024