Long-wavelength observations of debris discs around sun-like stars

Details Long-wavelength observations of debris discs around sun-like stars Long-wavelength observations of debris discs around sun-like stars

2009-02-02

arxiv.org/abs/0902.0338v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Accepted by A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361/200811018

[Abridged] We present two deep surveys of circumstellar discs around solar-type stars at different ages carried out at 350 micron with the CSO and at 1.2 mm with the IRAM 30-m telescope. The aim of this study is to understand the evolution timescale of circumstellar debris discs, and the physical mechanisms responsible for such evolution around solar-type stars. In addition, we perform a detailed characterisation of the detected debris discs. Theoretically, the mass of the disc is expected to decrease with time. In order to test this hypothesis, we performed the generalised Kendall's tau correlation and three different two-sample tests. A characterisation of the detected debris discs has been obtained by computing the collision and Poynting-Robertson timescales and by modelling the spectral energy distribution. The Kendall's tau correlation yields a probability of 76% that the mass of debris discs and their age are correlated. Similarly, the three two-sample tests give a probability between 70 and 83% that younger and older debris systems belong to different parent populations in terms of dust mass. We detected submillimetre/millimetre emission from six debris discs, enabling a detailed SED modelling. Our results on the correlation and evolution of dust mass as a function of age are conditioned by the sensitivity limit of our survey. Deeper millimetre observations are needed to confirm the evolution of debris material around solar-like stars. In the case of the detected discs, the comparison between collision and Poynting-Robertson timescales supports the hypothesis that these discs are collision dominated. All detected debris disc systems show the inner part evacuated from small micron-sized grains.

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