Where Are The M Dwarf Disks Older Than 10 Million Years?

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2005-06-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0506132v1

Astrophys.J. 631 (2005) 1161-1169

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

24 pages, 2 figures, accepted to ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/432568

We present 11.7-micron observations of nine late-type dwarfs obtained at the Keck I 10-meter telescope in December 2002 and April 2003. Our targets were selected for their youth or apparent IRAS 12-micron excess. For all nine sources, excess infrared emission is not detected. We find that stellar wind drag can dominate the circumstellar grain removal and plausibly explain the dearth of M Dwarf systems older than 10 Myr with currently detected infrared excesses. We predict M dwarfs possess fractional infrared excess on the order of L_{IR}/L_{*}\sim10^{-6} and this may be detectable with future efforts.

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