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 […]
Beta Pictoris
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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 […]
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The Orbit of the Young Exoplanet beta Pictoris b
We present new astrometry for the young (12-21 Myr) exoplanet beta Pictoris b taken with the Gemini/NICI, Magellan/MagAO+Clio2, and Magellan/MagAO+VisAO instruments between 2009 and 2012. The high dynamic range of […]
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Volatile Planetary Evolution and the Possibility of Life
In another step forward in the search for habitable planets, a team of researchers based out of the US and Chile announced that they have located a large swarm of […]
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Herschel HIFI observations of ionised carbon in the Pictoris debris disk
Context: The dusty debris disk around the ~20 Myr old main-sequence A-star beta Pic is known to contain gas. Evidence points towards a secondary origin of the gas as opposed […]