• An infrared excess is a measurement of an astronomical source, typically a star, that in their spectral energy distribution has a greater measured infrared...
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    analogous to the Kuiper belt in the Solar System. Stars that display an infrared excess due to dust emission are termed Vega-like stars. Observations by the...
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    linear polarization and often infrared radiation that is much stronger than in ordinary B-class stars, called infrared excess. As the B[e] nature is transient...
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  • It is 48.9 ± 3.4 Mpc distant from the Solar System. It showed an infrared excess which lasted for over 1400 days. 2010jl was discovered during the Puckett...
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    However certain enigmatic properties, such as the star's significant infrared excess, have led the authors of Davies (2007) to state that it might be an...
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    planets. In 2002, ζ1 was examined at an infrared wavelength of 25 μm, but no indication of an excess of infrared radiation was found. In 2007, the Spitzer...
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  • was separated from the above lists. About 6% of white dwarfs show infrared excess due to a disk around a white dwarf. In the past only a relative small...
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    is infrared excess due to a flat and optically thick debris disk, which is found in around 1%–4% of white dwarfs. The first white dwarf with infrared excess...
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    the infrared. This was interpreted as a collision between planetesimals. It is not the first time such a collision was inferred from infrared excess, with...
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    the Spitzer Space Telescope as a point source that does not show the infrared excess characteristic of a circumstellar disk. The Owl Nebula was discovered...
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    Survey and the brown dwarf companion was discovered in 2009 from UKIDSS infrared excess and confirmed with Gemini North to be a spacially resolved binary....
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    brighter than 10, and 178 down to magnitude 14. 38 members display an infrared excess, with one being particularly high. There is one candidate B-type variable...
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    temperature of 120,000 Kelvin and has an apparent magnitude of 13.5. A mid-infrared excess suggest a disk with a size of 35 to 150 AU, formed from Kuiper-belt...
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  • million years, sometimes contain isolated planetary-mass objects with infrared excess and signs of accretion. Most well known is the iPMO OTS 44 discovered...
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  • rotation period of about 125 days. The star displays no significant infrared excess due to circumstellar dust. It hosts a system of three known exoplanets...
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    rare and are detected via transits in the optical, infrared excess, silicate emission or via infrared brightening. Collisions are thought to be common in...
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    notably less likely to be contaminated by infrared excess than other bands. The band is useful for a range of infrared observations including the imaging of...
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    unlikely to be solely responsible for the temperature reversal. No infrared excess that would indicate the presence of a circumstellar disk has been detected...
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  • nebulae as they shed their outer layers, and this creates a large infrared excess and obscures the stars in visible light. After reaching an effective...
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    may indicate it is on the verge of evolving into a giant star. An infrared excess has been detected from an orbiting circumstellar disk. A black body...
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  • It loses mass at a very high rate, resulting in large amounts of infrared excess. The open cluster Stephenson 2 was discovered by American astronomer...
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  • of variation. 107 Piscium has been examined for the presence of an infrared excess caused by exozodiacal dust, but none was detected. The habitable zone...
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    Brown dwarf (redirect from Infrared dwarf)
    the Disk Detective project when classification volunteers noted its infrared excess. It was vetted and analyzed by the science team who found that W1200-7845...
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  • J0808). This low-mass star showed signs of youth, for example a strong infrared excess and active accretion of gaseous material. It is part of the 45+11 −7...
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  • any infrared excess at 70 micrometres or at 24 micrometres wavelengths. Subsequent measurements by the Herschel Space Observatory did detect an excess at...
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    detected, but it appears in Chi Tauri B's spectrum as an infrared excess. Because of this infrared excess, this unseen component is thought to be a pair of K-type...
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    ≤1% of the stars in NGC 2547 have infrared excess in 8.0 μm and 30-45% of the B- to F-type stars have infrared excess at 24 μm. The system 2MASS J08090250-4858172...
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  • an excess of infrared radiation is observed for the star. Even without circumstellar dust, regions undergoing star formation exhibit high infrared luminosities...
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    that is too low to be measured. The star has been examined for an infrared excess that would suggest the presence of an orbiting debris disk, but none...
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    025 magnitudes roughly ten times per day. Denebola shows a strong infrared excess, indicating there is a circumstellar debris disk of cool dust in orbit...
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