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Forecasting Catastrophe: Constraints on the Fomalhaut Main-belt Planetesimal Population from Observed Collisional Remnants

  • Authors: Arin M. Avsar, Kevin Wagner, Dániel Apai, Christopher C. Stark, Isabel Rebollido

Arin M. Avsar et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 8.

Top: the cumulative probability of the next collision event (a hypothetical Fomalhaut cs3) where the target planetesimal radius is ≥100 km in radius as a function of collision year under the conditions of our model (see Table 3). The shaded regions indicate the 16th and 84th percentiles of the posterior distribution. We find a 50% chance of the next collision occurring in 2027 at the earliest and 2041 at the latest. Bottom: the cumulative probability of the next collision event (Fomalhaut cs3) where the target planetesimal radius is ≥100 km in radius as a function of belt semimajor axis.

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