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 giant planet imaged in the disk of the young star β Pictoris

AM Lagrange, M Bonnefoy, G Chauvin, D Apai… - Science, 2010 - science.org
Here, we show that the~ 10-million-year-old β Pictoris system hosts a massive giant planet,
β Pictoris b, located 8 to 15 astronomical units from the star. This result confirms that gas …

A probable giant planet imaged in the β Pictoris disk-VLT/NaCo deep L'-band imaging

AM Lagrange, D Gratadour, G Chauvin… - Astronomy & …, 2009 - aanda.org
Context. Since the discovery of its dusty disk in 1984, β Pictoris has become the prototype of
young early-type planetary systems, and there are now various indications that a massive …

JWST-TST High Contrast: Asymmetries, Dust Populations, and Hints of a Collision in the β Pictoris Disk with NIRCam and MIRI

I Rebollido, CC Stark, J Kammerer… - The Astronomical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first JWST Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) and Near Infrared Camera
(NIRCam) observations of the prominent debris disk around β Pictoris. Coronagraphic …

Molecular gas clumps from the destruction of icy bodies in the β Pictoris debris disk

WRF Dent, MC Wyatt, A Roberge, JC Augereau… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Many stars are surrounded by disks of dusty debris formed in the collisions of asteroids,
comets, and dwarf planets, but is gas also released in such events? Observations at …

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 …

A lithium depletion boundary age of 21 Myr for the Beta Pictoris moving group

AS Binks, RD Jeffries - … of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Optical spectroscopy is used to confirm membership for eight low-mass candidates in the
young Beta Pic moving group (BPMG) via their radial velocities, chromospheric activity and …

Prospects for the characterization and confirmation of transiting exoplanets via the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect

BS Gaudi, JN Winn - The Astrophysical Journal, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Rossiter-McLaughlin (RM) effect is the distortion of stellar spectral lines that
occurs during eclipses or transits, due to stellar rotation. We assess the future prospects for …

MIRI MRS Observations of β Pictoris. I. The Inner Dust, the Planet, and the Gas

K Worthen, CH Chen, DR Law, CX Lu… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We present JWST MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrograph (MRS) observations of
the β Pictoris system. We detect an infrared excess from the central unresolved point source …