Are debris discs self-stirred?
@article{Kennedy2010AreDD, title={Are debris discs self-stirred?}, author={Grant M. Kennedy and Mark C. Wyatt}, journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}, year={2010}, volume={405}, pages={1253-1270} }
This paper aims to consider the evidence that debris disks are self-stirred by the formation of Pluto-size objects. A semi-analytical model for the dust produced during self-stirring is developed and applied to the statistics for A stars. We show that there is no significant statistical difference between fractional excesses of A-stars .50Myr old, and therefore focus on reproducing the broad trends, the “rise and fall” of the fraction of stars with excesses that the pre-stirred model of Wyatt…
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