Search Results - "Wyatt, Mark C."
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Evolution of Debris Disks
Published in Annual review of astronomy and astrophysics (01-01-2008)“…Circumstellar dust exists around several hundred main sequence stars. For the youngest stars, that dust could be a remnant of the protoplanetary disk. Mostly…”
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Debris froms giant impacts between planetary embryos at large orbital radii
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-06-2014)“…We consider the observational signatures of giant impacts between planetary embryos. While the debris released in the impact remains in a clump for only a…”
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Debris from terrestrial planet formation: the Moon-forming collision
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-09-2012)“…Abstract We study the evolution of debris created in the giant impacts expected during the final stages of terrestrial planet formation. The starting point is…”
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Scattering of exocomets by a planet chain: exozodi levels and the delivery of cometary material to inner planets
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Formation of Gaps in Self-gravitating Debris Disks by Secular Resonance in a Single-planet System. II. Toward a Self-consistent Model
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-09-2023)“…High-resolution observations of several debris disks reveal structures such as gaps and spirals, suggestive of gravitational perturbations induced by…”
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A Search for Collisions and Planet–Disk Interactions in the Beta Pictoris Disk with 26 Years of High-precision HST/STIS Imaging
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-11-2024)“…β Pictoris's well-studied debris disk and two known giant planets, in combination with the stability of the Hubble Space Telescope’s Space Telescope Imaging…”
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Cometary impactors on the TRAPPIST-1 planets can destroy all planetary atmospheres and rebuild secondary atmospheres on planets f, g, and h
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-09-2018)“…The TRAPPIST-1 system is unique in that it has a chain of seven terrestrial Earth-like planets located close to or in its habitable zone. In this paper, we…”
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A Complete ALMA Map of the Fomalhaut Debris Disk
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-06-2017)“…We present ALMA mosaic observations at 1.3 mm (223 GHz) of the Fomalhaut system with a sensitivity of 14 Jy/beam. These observations provide the first…”
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A circumbinary protoplanetary disk in a polar configuration
Published in Nature astronomy (01-03-2019)“…Nearly all young stars are initially surrounded by ‘protoplanetary’ disks of gas and dust, and in the case of single stars at least 30% of these disks go on to…”
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Carbon monoxide gas produced by a giant impact in the inner region of a young system
Published in Nature (London) (21-10-2021)“…Models of terrestrial planet formation predict that the final stages of planetary assembly—lasting tens of millions of years beyond the dispersal of young…”
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The REASONS Survey: Resolved Millimeter Observations of a Large Debris Disk around the Nearby F Star HD 170773
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-08-2019)“…Debris disks are extrasolar analogs to our own Kuiper Belt and they are detected around at least 17% of nearby Sun-like stars. The morphology and dynamics of a…”
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Solution to the debris disc mass problem: planetesimals are born small?
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2021)“…ABSTRACT Debris belts on the periphery of planetary systems, encompassing the region occupied by planetary orbits, are massive analogues of the Solar system’s…”
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The transiting dust clumps in the evolved disc of the Sun-like UXor RZ Psc
Published in Royal Society open science (01-01-2017)“…RZ Psc is a young Sun-like star, long associated with the UXor class of variable stars, which is partially or wholly dimmed by dust clumps several times each…”
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Imaging [CI] around HD 131835: reinterpreting young debris discs with protoplanetary disc levels of CO gas as shielded secondary discs
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-11-2019)“…ABSTRACT Despite being >10 Myr, there are ∼10 debris discs with as much CO gas as in protoplanetary discs. Such discs have been assumed to be ‘hybrid’, i.e…”
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Evidence for a high mutual inclination between the cold Jupiter and transiting super Earth orbiting π Men
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-09-2020)“…ABSTRACT π Men hosts a transiting super Earth (P ≈ 6.27 d, m ≈ 4.82 M⊕, R ≈ 2.04 R⊕) discovered by TESS and a cold Jupiter (P ≈ 2093 d, msin I ≈ 10.02 MJup, e…”
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Simulations of two-planet systems through all phases of stellar evolution: implications for the instability boundary and white dwarf pollution
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-05-2013)“…Exoplanets have been observed at many stages of their host star's life, including the main-sequence (MS), subgiant and red giant branch stages. Also, polluted…”
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Comet fragmentation as a source of the zodiacal cloud
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-02-2022)“…ABSTRACT Models of the zodiacal cloud’s thermal emission and sporadic meteoroids suggest Jupiter-family comets (JFCs) as the dominant source of interplanetary…”
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Dynamical evolution of an eccentric planet and a less massive debris disc
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-09-2014)“…We investigate the interaction between an eccentric planet and a less massive external debris disc. This scenario could occur after planet–planet scattering or…”
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Formation of Gaps in Self-gravitating Debris Disks by Secular Resonance in a Single-planet System. I. A Simplified Model
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-03-2021)“…Spatially resolved images of debris disks frequently reveal complex morphologies such as gaps, spirals, and warps. Most existing models for explaining such…”
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Survey of planetesimal belts with ALMA: gas detected around the Sun-like star HD 129590
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-09-2020)“…ABSTRACT Gas detection around main-sequence stars is becoming more common with around 20 systems showing the presence of CO. However, more detections are…”
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