Dust depletion in the inner disk of β Pictoris as a possible indicator of planets

Perturbations of a Planet on the β Picto

Perturbations of a Planet on the β Pictoris Circumstellar Dust Disk: 3. Time Scale of Collisional Destruction versus Resonance Time Scale

✍ A. Lecavelier des Etangs; H. Scholl; F. Roques; B. Sicardy; A. Vidal-Madjar 📂 Article 📅 1996 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 407 KB

We have already shown that a planet orbiting ␤ Pictoris is able to confine the circumstellar dust. Here we present new numerical simulations which improve this model. The new model takes into account destructive collisions between particles, and looks at the steady state between the collision and th