HERSCHEL'S "COLD DEBRIS DISKS"

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It is a natural desire of astronomers to find planetary systems similar to the Solar System in which we live - but instead, they often see something very different, and totally unexpected. ESA's Herschel space observatory has now found six Sun-like stars that are surrounded by mysterious cold dusty belts, different from everything known previously.

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Original research paper:

Krivov et al. (2013)
Herschel's ``Cold Debris Disks'': Background Galaxies or Quiescent Rims of Planetary Systems?
The Astrophysical Journal 772, 32 (19 pp)

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