The Absence of Cold Dust and the Mineralogy and Origin of the Warm Dust Encircling BD +20 307

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2010-10-29

arxiv.org/abs/1010.6218v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

accepted to ApJ; 3 color figures

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Spitzer Space Telescope photometry and spectroscopy of BD +20 307 show that all of the dust around this remarkable Gyr-old spectroscopic binary arises within 1 AU. No additional cold dust is needed to fit the infrared excess. Peaks in the 10 and 20 micron spectrum are well fit with small silicates that should be removed on a timescale of years from the system. This is the dustiest star known for its age, which is >1 Gyr. The dust cannot arise from a steady-state collisional cascade. A catastrophic collision of two rocky, planetary-scale bodies in the terrestrial zone is the most likely source for this warm dust because it does not require a reservoir of planetesimals in the outer system.

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