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Giant Impacts and Debris Disks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2014

H. Genda ,
H. Kobayashi  and
E. Kokubo
H. Genda
Affiliation:
Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan email: genda@elsi.jp
H. Kobayashi
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan
E. Kokubo
Affiliation:
Division of Theoretical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan
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Abstract

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During the last stage of terrestrial planet formation, Mars-sized protoplanets often collides with each other. Our high-resolution impact simulations show that such giant impacts produce a significant amount of fragments within the terrestrial planet region. These ejected fragments form a hot debris disk around the central star. We calculated the evolution of the surface density and size distribution of the debris disk using the analytical model of collision disruption, and estimated its infrared excess emission. We found that 24 μm flux from the debris disk is higher than stellar flux throughout the giant impact stage (~ 108 years), which can explain the infrared excess recently observed around the star with the age of 107 – 108 years.

Keywords

planets and satellites: formationhydrodynamicsmethods: n-body simulations
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S293: Formation, Detection, and Characterization of Extrasolar Habitable Planets , August 2012 , pp. 270 - 272
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2014 

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