HST and Spitzer Observations of the HD 207129 Debris Ring

Details HST and Spitzer Observations of the HD 207129 Debris Ring HST and Spitzer Observations of the HD 207129 Debris Ring

2010-08-16

arxiv.org/abs/1008.2793v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

28 pages, 8 figures

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A debris ring around the star HD 207129 (G0V; d = 16.0 pc) has been imaged in scattered visible light with the ACS coronagraph on the Hubble Space Telescope and in thermal emission using MIPS on the Spitzer Space Telescope at 70 microns (resolved) and 160 microns (unresolved). Spitzer IRS (7-35 microns) and MIPS (55-90 microns) spectrographs measured disk emission at >28 microns. In the HST image the disk appears as a ~30 AU wide ring with a mean radius of ~163 AU and is inclined by 60 degrees from pole-on. At 70 microns it appears partially resolved and is elongated in the same direction and with nearly the same size as seen with HST in scattered light. At 0.6 microns the ring shows no significant brightness asymmetry, implying little or no forward scattering by its constituent dust. With a mean surface brightness of V=23.7 mag per square arcsec, it is the faintest disk imaged to date in scattered light.

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