Detecting the Dusty Debris of Terrestrial Planet Formation
- 5 February 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 602 (2), L133-L136
- https://doi.org/10.1086/382693
Abstract
We use a multiannulus accretion code to investigate debris disks in the terrestrial zone, at 0.7-1.3 AU around a 1 solar mass star. Terrestrial planet formation produces a bright dusty ring of debris with a lifetime of at least 1 Myr. The early phases of terrestrial planet formation are observable with current facilities; the late stages require more advanced instruments with adaptive optics.Comment: 11 pages of text, 3 figures, accepted for ApJ Letters, additional info at http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~kenyon/pf/terra/tdThis publication has 57 references indexed in Scilit:
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