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Light from Shattered Worlds: Debris from Giant Impacts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2014

Alan P. Jackson ,
Mark C. Wyatt ,
William R. F. Dent  and
Aki Roberge
Alan P. Jackson*
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, UK
Mark C. Wyatt
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, UK
William R. F. Dent
Affiliation:
Joint ALMA Observatory, Alonso de Córdova 3107, Vitacura - Santiago, Chile
Aki Roberge
Affiliation:
Goddard Space Flight Centre, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, Maryland, 20771, USA
*
†email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Large impacts in the outer parts of a planetary system will produce debris discs that display a strong, distinctive, asymmetry, which will last for 105 year timescales. Debris resulting from a large impact may be able to explain the asymmetries in some known debris discs that have hitherto been difficult to understand.

Keywords

circumstellar matterplanetary systemsplanetary systems: formation
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S299: Exploring the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems , June 2013 , pp. 344 - 345
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013 

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