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Expanding the CHARA/FLUOR hot disk survey
Mennesson, B.; Scott, N.; Ten Brummelaar, T. et al.
2013In Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, 2 (2), p. 1340010
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Keywords :
Instrumentation; Interferometers; Zodiacal dust
Abstract :
[en] Little is presently known about the hot (>300 K) dust component of debris disks surrounding main sequence stars, similar to the zodiacal dust cloud found in the inner solar system.While extensive surveys have been carried out from space, the majority of detections have surprisingly come from the ground, where near infrared interferometric observations have recently revealed small (∼1%) resolved excesses around a dozen nearby main sequence stars. Most of these results have come from the CHARA array “FLUOR” instrument (Mt. Wilson, CA), which has demonstrated the best sensitivity worldwide so far for this type of studies, and has carried out an initial survey of ∼40 stars. In order to further understand the origin of this “hot dust phenomenon”, we will extend this initial survey to a larger number of stars and lower excess detection limits, i.e. higher visibility accuracy providing higher contrast measurements. To this end, two major instrumental developments are underway at CHARA. The first one aims at improving FLUOR’s sensitivity to a median K-band magnitude limit of 5 (making 200 targets available). The second development is based on a method that we recently developed for accurate (better than 0.1%) null depth measurements of stars, and that can be extended to regular interferometric visibility measurements.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Mennesson, B.
Scott, N.
Ten Brummelaar, T.
Bryden, G.
Turner, N.
Absil, Olivier  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Astroph. extragalactique et observations spatiales (AEOS)
Millan-Gabet, R.
Coude Du Foresto, V.
Augereau, J. C.
Ridgway, S.
Lebreton, J.
Marion, Lindsay ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Astroph. extragalactique et observations spatiales (AEOS)
Language :
English
Title :
Expanding the CHARA/FLUOR hot disk survey
Publication date :
December 2013
Journal title :
Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation
ISSN :
2251-1717
eISSN :
2251-1725
Publisher :
World Scientific, London, United Kingdom
Volume :
2
Issue :
2
Pages :
1340010
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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