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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 805, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/805/1/77
Keywords
circumstellar matter; infrared: planetary systems; planets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stability; stars: individual (2MASS J08090250-4858172, 2MASS J07354269-1450422, HD 15407A, HD 23514, HD 145263, BD+20 307)
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- Caltech/JPL to the University of Arizona [1255094, 1256424]
- NASA [NNX10AD38G]
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1211782] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- NASA [135773, NNX10AD38G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Luminous debris disks of warm dust in the terrestrial planet zones around solar-like stars were recently found to vary, which is indicative of ongoing large-scale collisions of rocky objects. We use Spitzer 3.6 and 4.5 mu m timeseries observations in 2012 and 2013 (extended to 2014 in one case) to monitor five more debris disks with unusually high fractional luminosities (extreme debris disk), including P1121 in the open cluster M47 (80 Myr), HD 15407A in the AB Dor moving group (80 Myr), HD 23514 in the Pleiades (120 Myr), HD 145263 in the Upper Sco Association (10 Myr), and the field star BD+20 307 (greater than or similar to 1 Gyr). Together with the published results for ID8 in NGC 2547 (35 Myr), this makes the first systematic time-domain investigation of planetary impacts outside the solar system. Significant variations with timescales shorter than a year are detected in five out of the six extreme debris disks we monitored. However, different systems show diverse sets of characteristics in the time domain, including long-term decay or growth, disk temperature variations, and possible periodicity.
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