New M dwarf debris disk candidates in NGC 2547

Details New M dwarf debris disk candidates in NGC 2547 New M dwarf debris disk candidates in NGC 2547

2008-07-23

arxiv.org/abs/0807.3597v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 8 figures; accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/592035

With only six known examples, M-dwarf debris disks are rare, even though M dwarfs constitute the majority of stars in the Galaxy. After finding a new M dwarf debris disk in a shallow mid-infrared observation of NGC 2547, we present a considerably deeper Spitzer-MIPS image of the region, with a maximum exposure time of 15 minutes per pixel. Among sources selected from a previously published membership list, we identify nine new M dwarfs with excess emission at 24 micron tracing warm material close to the snow line of these stars, at orbital radii of less than 1 AU. We argue that these are likely debris disks, suggesting that planet formation is under way in these systems. Interestingly, the estimated excess fraction of M stars appears to be higher than that of G and K stars in our sample.

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