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 reappraisal of the habitability of planets around M dwarf stars

JC Tarter, PR Backus, RL Mancinelli, JM Aurnou… - Astrobiology, 2007 - liebertpub.com
Stable, hydrogen-burning, M dwarf stars make up about 75% of all stars in the Galaxy. They
are extremely long-lived, and because they are much smaller in mass than the Sun …

The Spitzer c2d legacy results: star-formation rates and efficiencies; evolution and lifetimes

NJ Evans, MM Dunham, JK Jørgensen… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The c2d Spitzer Legacy project obtained images and photometry with both
IRAC and MIPS instruments for five large, nearby molecular clouds. Three of the clouds …

Imaging extrasolar giant planets

BP Bowler - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
High-contrast adaptive optics (AO) imaging is a powerful technique to probe the
architectures of planetary systems from the outside-in and survey the atmospheres of self …

[BOOK][B] Dust in the galactic environment

DCB Whittet - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Dust is a ubiquitous feature of the cosmos, im**ing directly or indirectly on most fields of
modern astronomy and astrophysics. Dust in the Galactic Environment, Second Edition …

Planet formation around stars of various masses: the snow line and the frequency of giant planets

GM Kennedy, SJ Kenyon - The Astrophysical Journal, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We use a semianalytic circumstellar disk model that considers movement of the snow line
through evolution of accretion and the central star to investigate how gas giant frequency …

A Spitzer Space Telescope study of disks in the young σ Orionis cluster

J Hernández, L Hartmann, T Megeath… - The Astrophysical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We report new Spitzer Space Telescope observations, using the IRAC and MIPS
instruments, of the young (~ 3 Myr) σ Orionis cluster. We identify 336 stars as members of the …

The disk population of the Taurus star-forming region

KL Luhman, PR Allen, C Espaillat… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We have analyzed nearly all images of the Taurus star-forming region at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, 8.0,
and 24 μm that were obtained during the cryogenic mission of the Spitzer Space Telescope …

A Census of the Taurus star-forming region and neighboring associations with Gaia

KL Luhman - The Astronomical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
I have used high-precision photometry and astrometry from the third data release of Gaia to
perform a survey for members of the Taurus star-forming region and young associations in …

Debris disk evolution around A stars

KYL Su, GH Rieke, JA Stansberry… - The Astrophysical …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
We report 24 and/or 70 μm measurements of~ 160 A-type main-sequence stars using the
Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS). Their ages range from 5 to 850 Myr …