For decades, the spectral variations of Beta Pictoris have been modelled as the result of the evaporation of exocomets close to the star, termed falling evaporating bodies (FEBs).
Beta Pictoris
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Has The Dust Clump In The Debris Disk of Beta Pictoris Moved?
The edge-on debris disk of the nearby young star Beta Pictoris shows an unusual brightness asymmetry in the form of a clump.
Posted inAlpha Centauri, Astronomy & Telescopes, Beta Pictoris, Comets and Asteroids, Epsilon Eridani, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Fomalhaut, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Status Report
Imaging Of Exocomets With Infrared Interferometry
Active comets have been detected in several exoplanetary systems, although so far only indirectly, when the dust or gas in the extended coma has transited in front of the stellar […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Beta Pictoris, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Status Report
Has The Dust Clump In The Debris Disk of Beta Pictoris Moved?
The edge-on debris disk of the nearby young star Beta Pictoris shows an unusual brightness asymmetry in the form of a clump.
Posted inAstrochemistry, Astrogeology, Beta Pictoris, Meteorites & Asteroids, Press Release
Mid-infrared Spectra Of The Shocked Murchison CM Chondrite: Comparison With Astronomical Observations Of Dust In Debris Disks
We present laboratory mid-infrared transmission/absorption spectra obtained from matrix of the hydrated Murchison CM meteorite experimentally shocked at peak pressures of 10 to 49 GPa, and compare them to astronomical […]
Posted inAstrochemistry, Astronomy & Telescopes, Beta Pictoris, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release
Detecting Planetary Mass Companions Near The Water Frost-line Using JWST Interferometry
JWST promises to be the most versatile infrared observatory for the next two decades. The Near Infrared and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, when used in the Aperture Masking Interferometry (AMI) […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Beta Pictoris, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release
Likelihood Ratio Map For Direct Exoplanet Detection
Direct imaging of exoplanets is a challenging task due to the small angular distance and high contrast relative to their host star, and the presence of quasi-static noise.
Posted inAstrogeology, Beta Pictoris, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets
Trends In Silicates In The β Pictoris Disk
While beta Pic is known to host silicates in ring-like structures, whether the properties of these silicate dust vary with stellocentric distance remains an open question. We re-analyze the beta […]
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Hunting Molecules To Find New Planets
Each exoplanet revolves around a star, like the Earth around the Sun. This is why it is generally impossible to obtain images of an exoplanet, so dazzling is the light […]
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Herschel Detects Oxygen in the beta Pictoris Debris Disk
The young star beta Pictoris is well known for its dusty debris disk, produced through the grinding down by collisions of planetesimals, kilometre-sized bodies in orbit around the star. In […]