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Journal Articles Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Year : 2014

Herschel observations of debris discs orbiting planet-hosting subgiants

Grant M. Kennedy
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Mark C. Wyatt
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John A. Johnson
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Bruce Sibthorpe
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Debris discs are commonly detected orbiting main-sequence stars, yet little is known regarding their fate as the star evolves to become a giant. Recent observations of radial velocity detected planets orbiting giant stars highlight this population and its importance for probing, for example, the population of planetary systems orbiting intermediate mass stars. Our Herschel survey observed a subset of the Johnson et al. program subgiants, finding that 4/36 exhibit excess emission thought to indicate debris, of which 3/19 are planet-hosting stars and 1/17 are stars with no current planet detections. Given the small numbers involved, there is no evidence that the disc detection rate around stars with planets is different to that around stars without planets. Our detections provide a clear indication that large quantities of dusty material can survive the star's main-sequence lifetime and be detected on the subgiant branch, with important implications for the evolution of planetary systems and observations of polluted or dusty white dwarfs. Our detection rates also provide an important constraint that can be included in models of debris disc evolution.
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insu-03618603 , version 1 (24-03-2022)

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Amy Bonsor, Grant M. Kennedy, Mark C. Wyatt, John A. Johnson, Bruce Sibthorpe. Herschel observations of debris discs orbiting planet-hosting subgiants. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2014, 437, pp.3288-3297. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stt2128⟩. ⟨insu-03618603⟩
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