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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 631, Issue 2, Pages 1161-1169Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/432568
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circumstellar matter; stars : late-type; stars : winds, outflows
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We present 11.7 mu m observations of nine late-type dwarfs obtained at the Keck I 10 m telescope in 2002 December and 2003 April. Our targets were selected for their youth or apparent IRAS 12 mu m excess. For all nine sources, excess infrared emission is not detected. We find that stellar wind drag can dominate the circumstellar grain removal and plausibly explain the dearth of M dwarf systems older than 10 Myr with currently detected infrared excesses. We predict that M dwarfs possess fractional infrared excesses on the order of L-IR/L-* similar to 10(-6) and that this may be detectable with future efforts.
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