Giant Impacts and Debris Disk Morphology

Giant Impacts and Debris Disk Morphology

Certain debris disks have nonaxisymmetric shapes in scattered light which are unexplained. The appearance of a disk depends on how its constituent Keplerian ellipses are arranged. The more the ellipses align apsidally, the more nonaxisymmetric the disk. Apsidal alignment is automatic for fragments r...

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Main Authors: Joshua W. Jones, Eugene Chiang, Gaspard Duchêne, Paul Kalas, Thomas M. Esposito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
Subjects:
Debris disks
Circumstellar disks
Exoplanet dynamics
Asteroids
Hirayama families
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc466

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https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc466

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