Speaker: Brenda Matthews (Herzberg Institute)
Title: Results from the Herschel DEBRIS Survey
Abstract: Debris disks are second-generation dusty disks observed around main sequence stars. They are generated by ongoing collisions between larger planetesimal bodies in the disk and indicate that the system succeeded in building large solids within the long-dispersed protoplanetary disk. Debris disks were originally detected by IRAS through their thermal emission and have also...
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