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On Lifetimes of Dusty Debris Disks around A-type Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2014

Ramiro de la Reza
Affiliation:
Observatório Nacional, Ro de Janeiro, Brazil email: delareza@on.br
Carolina Chavero
Affiliation:
Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina email: carolina@oac.uncor.edu
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Abstract

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Using a collection of 40 debris disks (DD) around dwarf A-type stars (from which 17 are spatially resolved) having well determined stellar ages (Vican 2012), we found that for a collisional self-stirring model of flux distributions (Kenyon & Bromley, 2008, 2010) dusty DD occupy for a large part the terminal age positions corresponding the end of the MS phase. This situation does not necessarily mean that the dust generation in these DD is finished at this stage. Dusty DD can continue their lives in the next Post-MS stages, as is the case of the recent first resolved dusty DD with planets around the K-type subgiant star κ CrB. This star is considered a “retired” A star (Bonsor et al. 2013). In order to explain the apparent lack of dusty DD in the giant phase, we propose here that this could be due, in part, to a dilution of any planetesimal belt existing around these stars, with the corresponding diminishing of collisions and subsequent dust generation. This dilution is provoked by the dynamical expansion of this belt produced by the important stellar mass loss during the RGB phase. This scenario is being studied by means of numerical simulations by de la Reza, Roig & Chavero 2013 (in preparation).

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013 

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