by Nick Ballering | Mar 25, 2013 | Daily Paper Summaries
Spectroscopy with Herschel can probe the dust in the heart of protoplanetary disks through the 69 micron feature of forsterite. Examining these features in detail reveals that the dust grains are small, iron poor, and confined to narrow rings.
by Nick Ballering | Jan 28, 2013 | Daily Paper Summaries
New simulations show that — due to forces from outside the stellar system — wide stellar binaries may disrupt planets much more than previously thought.
by Nick Ballering | Dec 24, 2012 | Daily Paper Summaries
Resolved images of debris disks with Herschel reveal their true sizes, and test the assumptions used in unresolved observations.
