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Jul 1995
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HST Proposal ID #6226
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Hst Proposal Id #6226 Interstellar Medium
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About 30 other nearby stars have been shown (Aumann 1985,1988 Sadakane and Nishida 1986) to emit excess infrared flux relative to that expected from their photospheres. It is believed that such emission is the rule rather than the exception and that the limited number is caused by the IRAS detection limits. We propose to observe the prototypical objects Alpha Lyrae. If an optical counterpart to the infrared emission is observed, then the same analysis as that performed on the Beta Pictoris disk will be possible. If not, because of the low scattered light levels in the wings of the HST PSF, stringent limits on the albedo of the disk should be obtained. Only one circumstellar disk has been directly observed around a main sequence star. On the other hand, it is believed that disks are typical byproducts of star formation, and that these disks are the sites where planetary systems are formed. Both of these hypotheses will be tested with the observations proposed here. Firstly, the observations, if they detect the material will constrain its spatial distribution, and test the disk hypothesis. The material surrounding the target stars is presumed but not known to be distributed in a disk. There is not significant extinction towards these targets, but a shell of optically thin material can also fit the existing IRAS observations. The observations also only loosely constrain the radial distribution of the particles. Given a detection, it should be possible to distinguish a disk from
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