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Determining the Origin of Inner Planetary System Debris Orbiting the Dustiest Main Sequence Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2014

Carl Melis
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego, California 92093-0424, USA; email: cmelis@ucsd.edu
B. Zuckerman
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1547, USA
Joseph H. Rhee
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Pomona, California 91768, USA
Inseok Song
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
S. J. Murphy
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, The Australian National University, Cotter Road, Weston Creek, Australian Capital Territory 2611, Australia
M. S. Bessell
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, The Australian National University, Cotter Road, Weston Creek, Australian Capital Territory 2611, Australia
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We develop a means to distinguish between warm dusty circumstellar debris disks produced by steady state collisional evolution of a planetesimal belt or through transient events.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2014 

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