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1. Physics and Astronomy › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

   A Detailed Characterization of HR 8799's Debris Disk with ALMA in Band 7

   Faramaz, Marino, Booth et al. · The Astronomical Journal · 2021

   New ALMA Band 7 observations of the HR 8799 debris disk, modelled with radiative transfer and MCMC, show a disk with smoothly rising and falling edges, which the authors link to a high-eccentricity component.

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   1. UncheckedThe HR 8799 debris disk is not well described by a single power-law brightness profile with sharp inner and outer edges, according to ALMA Band 7 modelling.“We find that this disk cannot be adequately represented by a single power law with sharp edges.”
   2. UncheckedHR 8799's cold dust disk has smoothly sloping edges and a mid-disk peak, as expected if part of it is on highly eccentric orbits, per ALMA Band 7 data.“It exhibits a smoothly rising inner edge and smoothly falling outer edge, with a peak in between, as expected from a disk that contains a high eccentricity component, hence confirming previous findings.”