SETI public: Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Placing Our Solar System in Context with Spitzer

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Paper: astro-ph/0507034
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 17:49:56 GMT (643kb)

Title: Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Placing Our Solar System
in Context with Spitzer

Authors: Michael R. Meyer (Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona), and
the FEPS Legacy Science Team
Comments: 8 postscript pages including 3 figures. To appear in "Spitzer New
Views of the Cosmos" ASP Conference Series, eds. L. Armus et al. FEPS website
at http://feps.as.arizona.edu
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We summarize the progress to date of our Legacy Science Program entitled "The
Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems" (FEPS) based on observations
obtained with the Spitzer Space Telescope during its first year of operation.
In addition to results obtained from our ground-based preparatory program and
our early validation program, we describe new results from a survey for
near-infrared excess emission from the youngest stars in our sample as well as
a search for cold debris disks around sun-like stars. We discuss the
implications of our findings with respect to current understanding of the
formation and evolution of our own solar system.

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