Debris disks and the search for life in the universe
Circumstellar debris disks are the extrasolar analogues of the asteroid belt and the Kuiper belt. These disks consist of comets and leftover planetesimals that continuously collide to produce copious amounts of circumstellar dust that can be observed as infrared excess or in resolved imaging. As an...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för astronomi
2016
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-127263 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7649-366-3 |