Sentences with phrase «known debris disks»

Of the 130 stars with known debris disks, 100 had been previously observed and scanned for exoplanets.

Besides this exotic object HD 74389, our paper reports thirty two other new debris disk candidates that we found and it describes a new detection of 22 micron excess from a previously known debris disk host: the star HD 22128.

But knowing a debris disk exists around these stars tells us there is a good chance we'll find them.

Not exact matches

Astronomers didn't know how a debris disk changes as a parent star gets older because there weren't enough detailed studies of stars at various ages.

«We knew about these debris disks around white dwarfs for over twenty years, but have only now been able to obtain the first image of one of these disks,» says Mr Manser.

Study of collisional processes there will have impact on the interpretation of the much more distant (but numerous) main - sequence debris disks, about which much less is known.

This talk will highlight the effort to characterize stellar atmospheres through a project known as MESAS (Measuring the Emission of Stellar Atmospheres at Submillimeter / millimeter wavelengths) which is imperative to the success of current and future debris disk studies.

The resultant disk of debris could then have clumped together, slowly coalescing to form the satellite we know and love today.

As of December 14, 2009, the 61 Virginis system is known to have one super-Earth and two Neptune - class planets, as well as a circumstellar debris disk.

This talk will focus on our new discoveries with VLT / SPHERE of a beautiful two - armed spiral disk with a large gap (the third known of its kind) and an edge - on warped debris disk — similar to the warp induced by the planet in Beta Pic.

Many planets that have been found through direct imaging have been in systems that had debris disks, and now we know the dust could be indicators of undiscovered worlds.»