Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000aas...197.0827w&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 197th AAS Meeting, #08.27; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.1410
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Scientific paper
Submillimeter observations of late-type stars in the nearest region of recent star formation, the TW Hydrae Association, indicate roughly Earth-mass quantities of cold, particulate matter not detected at far-infrared wavelengths by IRAS. Most of the detected mass at TW Hya, HD 98800, Hen3-600 and TWA 7 is carried by large particles of size ~ few hundred microns whose number density (n) may be less steeply peaked toward smaller radii (a) than would be the case for the popular fragmentation spectrum dn α a-3.5 da. In the multiple systems HD 98800 and Hen3-600, the cold dust is probably orbiting outside of the orbits of the visual binaries at > 100 AU. At the apparently single star TW Hya, the preponderance of the dust is likely located in the same general region as the Kuiper cometary belt of our solar system. TWA 7 is probably the first Vega-like star whose dusty circumstellar disk is detected in the submillimeter without first being detected in the far infrared by IRAS.
Greaves Jane S.
Holland Wayne S.
Webb Richard A.
Zuckerman Ben
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