{
  "id": "0905.2469",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2009-05-15T13:12:30.000Z",
  "updated": "2009-05-15T13:12:30.000Z",
  "title": "IRS Characterization of a Debris Disk around an M-type star in NGC2547",
  "authors": [
    "Paula S. Teixeira",
    "Charles J. Lada",
    "Kenneth Wood",
    "Thomas P. Robitaille",
    "Kevin L. Luhman"
  ],
  "comment": "Accepted for publication in ApJ. The paper has 19 pages, 4 figures, and one table",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.SR",
    "astro-ph.EP"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present 5 to 15 micron Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) low resolution spectral data of a candidate debris disk around an M4.5 star identified as a likely member of the ~40 Myr old cluster NGC2547. The IRS spectrum shows a silicate emission feature, indicating the presence of warm, small, (sub)micron-sized dust grains in the disk. Of the fifteen previously known candidate debris disks around M-type stars, the one we discuss in this paper is the first to have an observed mid-infrared spectrum and is also the first to have measured silicate emission. We combined the IRS data with ancillary data (optical, JHKs, and Spitzer InfraRed Array Camera and 24 micron data) to build the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the source. Monte Carlo radiation transfer modeling of the SED characterized the dust disk as being very flat (h100=2AU) and extending inward within at least 0.13AU of the central star. Our analysis shows that the disk is collisionally dominated and is likely a debris disk.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2009-05-15T13:12:30.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "m-type star",
      "irs characterization",
      "carlo radiation transfer modeling",
      "candidate debris disk",
      "monte carlo radiation transfer"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1088/0004-637X/700/1/454",
      "journal": "The Astrophysical Journal",
      "year": 2009,
      "month": "Jul",
      "volume": 700,
      "number": 1,
      "pages": 454
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 19,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 820567,
      "adsabs": "2009ApJ...700..454T"
    }
  }
}