AKARI/IRC 18 µm survey of warm debris disks
Marshall, J. P.; White, G. J.; Nakagawa, T.; Onaka, T.; Murakami, H.; Fukagawa, M.; Ishihara, D.; Kataza, H.; Ootsubo, T.; Yamashita, T.; Takita, S.; Fujiwara, H.; Hirao, T.; Enya, K.
United States, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom
Abstract
Context. Little is known about the properties of the warm (Tdust ≳ 150 K) debris disk material located close to the central star, which has a more direct link to the formation of terrestrial planets than does the low-temperature debris dust that has been detected to date.
Aims: To discover new warm debris disk candidates that show large 18 μm excess and estimate the fraction of stars with excess based on the AKARI/IRC Mid-Infrared All-Sky Survey data.
Methods: We searched for point sources detected in the AKARI/IRC All-Sky Survey, which show a positional match with A-M dwarf stars in the Tycho-2 Spectral Type Catalogue and exhibit excess emission at 18 μm compared to what is expected from the KS magnitude in the 2MASS catalogue.
Results: We find 24 warm debris candidates including 8 new candidates among A-K stars. The apparent debris disk frequency is estimated to be 2.8 ± 0.6%. We also find that A stars and solar-type FGK stars have different characteristics of the inner component of the identified debris disk candidates. While debris disks around A stars are cooler and consistent with steady-state evolutionary model of debris disks, those around FGK stars tend to be warmer and cannot be explained by the steady-state model.