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The Gray Needle: Large Grains in the HD 15115 Debris Disk from LBT/PISCES/Ks and LBTI/LMIRcam/L′ Adaptive Optics Imaging

  • Authors: Timothy J. Rodigas, Philip M. Hinz, Jarron Leisenring, Vidhya Vaitheeswaran, Andrew J. Skemer, Michael Skrutskie, Kate Y. L. Su, Vanessa Bailey, Glenn Schneider, Laird Close, Filippo Mannucci, Simone Esposito, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Enrico Pinna, Javier Argomedo, Guido Agapito, Daniel Apai, Giuseppe Bono, Kostantina Boutsia, Runa Briguglio, Guido Brusa, Lorenzo Busoni, Giovanni Cresci, Thayne Currie, Silvano Desidera, Josh Eisner, Renato Falomo, Luca Fini, Kate Follette, Adriano Fontana, Peter Garnavich, Raffaele Gratton, Richard Green, Juan Carlos Guerra, J. M. Hill, William F. Hoffmann, Terry J. Jones, Megan Krejny, Craig Kulesa, Jared Males, Elena Masciadri, Dino Mesa, Don McCarthy, Michael Meyer, Doug Miller, Matthew J. Nelson, Alfio Puglisi, Fernando Quiros-Pacheco, Armando Riccardi, Eleonora Sani, Paolo Stefanini, Vincenzo Testa, John Wilson, Charles E. Woodward, and Marco Xompero

Rodigas et al. 2012 The Astrophysical Journal 752 57.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 9.

Equilibrium disk temperature vs. distance from the star, for several different silicate grain sizes. See the text for methodology. The horizontal dashed lines represent temperature constraints of 179 K and 57 K from Moór et al. (2011b). Given that we have observational evidence for the predicted gap at ~1'', we can independently constrain the dust grain sizes to be ~3 μm for astronomical silicates.

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