Finding Warm Debris Disks with WISE Around Bright Stars

Using data from the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) we look for infrared excess flux around main-sequence Hipparcos stars in the solar neighborhood that is due to the presence of dust in regions analogous to the habitable zone and asteroid belt around the Sun. We identify 220 stars with warm and cool dust and increase the census of stars within 75 pc by 27% in the literature. Check out http://iopscience.iop.org/0067-0049/212/1/10 for more information. and Hipparos,

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Western University
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United States

Keywords

debris disks, statistics, zodiacal dust, protoplanetary disks, WISE, planetary systems

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