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Because of proximity to the Galactic plane, reliable identification of members of the alpha Persei cluster is often problematic. Based primarily on membership evaluations contained in six published papers, we constructed a mostly complete list of high-fidelity members of spectral type G and earlier that lie within 3 arc degrees of the cluster center. Alpha Persei was the one nearby, rich, young open cluster not surveyed with the Spitzer Space Telescope. We examined the first and final data releases of the Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and found 11, or perhaps 12, alpha Per cluster members that have excess mid-infrared emission above the stellar photosphere attributable to an orbiting dusty debris disk. The most unusual of these is V488 Per, a K-type star with an excess IR luminosity 16% (or more) of the stellar luminosity; this is a larger excess fraction than that of any other known dusty main sequence star. Much of the dust that orbits V488 Per is at a temperature of ~800 K; if these grains radiate like blackbodies, then they lie only ~0.06 AU from the star. The dust is probably the aftermath of a collision of two planetary embryos or planets with small semimajor axe

Author

Zuckerman, B.; Melis, Carl; Rhee, Joseph H.; Schneider, Adam; Song, Inseok

Published

2012

Language

EN