Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993apj...414..793z&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 414, no. 2, p. 793-802.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
131
Main Sequence Stars, Radio Astronomy, Submillimeter Waves, Comets, Far Infrared Radiation, Infrared Sources (Astronomy), Interstellar Extinction, Stellar Envelopes
Scientific paper
JCMT maps of the 800-micron emission from Vega, Fomalhaut, and Beta Pictoris are interpreted to indicate that they are not ringed by large reservoirs of distant orbiting dust particles that are too cold to have been detected by IRAS. A search for 800-micron emission from stars in the Pleiades and Ursa Majoris open clusters is reported. In comparison with the mass of dust particles near T Tauri and Herbig Ae stars, the JCMT data indicate a decline in dust mass during the initial 3 x 10 exp 8 yr that a star spends on the main sequence that is at least as rapid as (time) exp -2. It is estimated that in the Kuiper belt the ratio of total mass carried by small particles to that carried by comets is orders of magnitude smaller than this ratio is 1 AU from the sun. If 800-micron opacities calculated by Pollack et al. (1993) are correct, then the particles with radii less than 100 microns that dominate the FIR fluxes measured by IRAS cannot entirely account for the measured 800-micron fluxes at Vega, Beta Pic, and Fomalhaut; larger particles must be present as well.
Becklin Eric E.
Zuckerman Ben
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