Kuiper belt structure around nearby super-Earth host stars

@article{Kennedy2015KuiperBS,
  title={Kuiper belt structure around nearby super-Earth host stars},
  author={Grant M. Kennedy and Luca Matr{\`a} and Maxime Marmier and J. S. Greaves and Mark C. Wyatt and Geoffrey C. Bryden and Wayne S. Holland and Christophe Lovis and Brenda C. Matthews and Francesco A. Pepe and Bruce Sibthorpe and St{\'e}phane Udry},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2015},
  volume={449},
  pages={3121-3136}
}
We present new observations of the Kuiper belt analogues around HD 38858 and HD 20794, hosts of super-Earth mass planets within 1 au. As two of the four nearby G-type stars (with HD 69830 and 61 Vir) that form the basis of a possible correlation between low-mass planets and debris disc brightness, these systems are of particular interest. The disc around HD 38858 is well resolved with Herschel and we constrain the disc geometry and radial structure. We also present a probable JCMT sub-mm… 
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