A debris disk (American English), or debris disc (Commonwealth English), is a circumstellar disk of dust and debris in orbit around a star. Sometimes...
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Zeta Reticuli (section Alleged debris disk)
coming from a two-lobed structure that looked like a debris disk seen edge-on. This debris disk interpreted as an analogy to the Kuiper belt with a semi-major...
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the debris disks around these examples (e.g. Vega, Alphecca, Fomalhaut, etc.) are not truly "protoplanetary", but represent a later stage of disk evolution...
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Vega (category Circumstellar disks)
have a circumstellar disk of dust. This dust is likely to be the result of collisions between objects in an orbiting debris disk, which is analogous to...
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piece of space debris falling to Earth leaves a fiery trail, just like a meteor. A debris disk is a circumstellar disk of dust and debris in orbit around...
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White dwarf (section Debris disks and planets)
the white dwarf, until it will eventually sublimate and the disk will disappear. A debris disk will have a lifetime of around a few million years for white...
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Pulsar planet (section Debris disks and precursors)
interaction with a more massive one; the light white dwarf gives rise to a debris disk that generates a planet while the larger white dwarf becomes a pulsar...
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Fomalhaut (category Circumstellar disks)
by several debris disks. The inner disk is a high-carbon small-grain (10–300 nm) ash disk, clustering at 0.1 AU from the star. Next is a disk of larger...
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Beta Pictoris (category Circumstellar disks)
use of direct imagery. Both planets are orbiting in the plane of the debris disk surrounding the star. Beta Pictoris c is currently the closest extrasolar...
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AU Microscopii (category Circumstellar disks)
star. Like β Pictoris, AU Microscopii has a circumstellar disk of dust known as a debris disk and at least two exoplanets, with the presence of an additional...
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Tau Ceti (category Circumstellar disks)
be a Jovian planet between 3 and 20 AU from the star. Because of its debris disk, any planet orbiting Tau Ceti would face far more impact events than...
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excess and could be similar to Peter Pan disks. 2MASS 08093547-4913033, which is one of the M-dwarfs with a debris disk in NGC 2547 was observed with the Spitzer...
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HR 8799 (category Circumstellar disks)
9 times its luminosity. It is part of a system that also contains a debris disk and at least four massive planets. These planets were the first exoplanets...
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Gliese 581 (redirect from Gliese 581's debris disk)
three planets discovered using the radial velocity method, along with a debris disk. The system's notability is due primarily to early exoplanetology discoveries...
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Circumstellar disc (redirect from Circumstellar disk)
inner radius. Protoplanetary disks and debris disks can be imaged with different methods. If the disk is seen edge-on, the disk can sometimes block the light...
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circumstellar disks that have published resolved images. Many of them are protoplanetary disks or debris disks. Only some are transitional disks between protoplanetary...
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HD 69830 (section Debris disk)
were updated in 2023. In 2005, the Spitzer Space Telescope detected a debris disk in the HD 69830 system consistent with being produced by an asteroid...
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planet exists such that it has created those accumulations. Disks of space dust (debris disks) surround many stars. The dust can be detected because it...
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HD 98800 (category Circumstellar disks)
98800 A and HD 98800 B each of which contains two stars. In 2007, a debris disk was discovered orbiting HD 98800 B consisting of two rings which indicates...
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Fomalhaut C (category Circumstellar disks)
Solar System's age. In December 2013, a debris disk was discovered around this star. This is the second debris disk in the system, as a first one was discovered...
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Planetesimal (category Circumstellar disks)
(/ˌplænɪˈtɛsɪməlz/) are solid objects thought to exist in protoplanetary disks and debris disks. Believed to have formed in the Solar System about 4.6 billion years...
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LSPM J0207+3331 (category Circumstellar disks)
between 550–1400 K. It may be a debris disk created from asteroids broken apart by the star's gravity. The inner disk is optically thick with an inner...
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61 Virginis (category Circumstellar disks)
wavelength of 160 μm. This indicated the presence of a debris disk in orbit around the star. This disk was resolved at 70 μm. It was then thought to correspond...
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949 planetary systems, with 1007 systems having more than one planet. Debris disks are known to be common while other objects are more difficult to observe...
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out of a nebula to create a young protostar orbited by a protoplanetary disk. There are eight planets within the Solar System; planets outside of the...
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Glossary of astronomy (redirect from Tidal debris)
debris disk A ring-shaped circumstellar disc of dust and debris orbiting its host star. It is created by collisions between planetesimals. A debris disk...
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WISE J080822.18-644357.3 (category Circumstellar disks)
Myr old star system in the Carina constellation with a circumstellar debris disk orbiting an M-type red dwarf about 331 lightyears from Earth. On October...
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Scorpius–Centaurus association. The star is surrounded by a debris disk oriented 21 degrees away from HD 106906 b; this disk is about 65 AU (10 billion km; 6 billion mi)...
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Gamma Trianguli (section Debris disk)
Orbiting the star is a dusty debris disk with a combined mass of about 2.9 × 10−2 times the mass of the Earth. This disk can be detected because it is...
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the core behind. This crust and mantle material would then form the debris disk, which is now detected around the white dwarf. At first the size of the...
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