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A Sub-Millimeter Search of Nearby Young Stars for Cold Dust: Discovery of Debris Disks around Two Low-Mass Stars | | Michael C. Liu
; Brenda C. Matthews
; Jonathan P. Williams
; Paul G. Kalas
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4 Mar 2004 | | Journal: | Astrophys.J. 608 (2004) 526-532 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | IfA/Hawaii), Brenda C. Matthews (UC Berkeley), Jonathan P. Williams (IfA/Hawaii), Paul G. Kalas (UC Berkeley | | Abstract: | (Abridged) We present results from a JCMT/SCUBA 850 um search for cold dust around nearby young stars belonging to the beta Pic (t~12 Myr) and the Local Association (t~50 Myr) moving groups. Unlike most past sub-mm studies, our sample was chosen on the basis of stellar age. Our observations achieve about an order of magnitude greater sensitivity in dust mass compared to previous work in this age range. We detected two of the three M dwarfs in our sample at 850 um, GJ 182 and GJ 803. GJ 182 may also possess a 25 um excess, indicative of warm dust in the inner few AU of its disk. For GJ 803 (AU Mic), sub-mm mapping finds that the 850 um emission is unresolved. A non-detection of the CO 3-2 line indicates the system is gas-poor, and the SED suggests the presence of a large inner disk hole (~17 AU = 1.7 arcsec in radius). These are possible indications that planets at large separations can form around M dwarfs within ~10 Myr. In a companion paper (Kalas, Liu & Matthews 2004), we confirm the existence of a dust disk around GJ 803 using optical coronagraphic imaging. Given its youthfulness, proximity, and detectability, the GJ 803 disk will be a valuable system for studying disk, and perhaps planet, formation in great detail. Overall, sub-mm measurements of debris disks point to a drop in dust mass by a factor of about 10^3 within the first ~10 Myr, with the subsequent decline in the masses of sub-mm detected disks consistent with t^{-0.5} to t^{-1}. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0403131 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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