Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2023

Insight from laboratory measurements on dust in debris discs

Elodie Choquet

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Extreme adaptive optics instruments have revealed exquisite details on debris discs, allowing to extract the optical properties of the dust particles such as the phase function, the degree of polarisation and the spectral reflectance. These are three powerful diagnostic tools to understand the physical properties of the dust : the size, shape and composition of the dust particles. This can inform us on the population of parent bodies, also called planetesimals, which generate those particles through collisions. It is however very rare to be able to combine all those three observables for the same system, as this requires different high-contrast imaging techniques to suppress the starlight and reveal the faint scattered light emission from the dust. Due to its brightness, the ring detected around the A-type star HR 4796 is a notable exception, with both unpolarised and polarised images covering near-infrared wavelengths. Here, we show how measurements of dust particles in the laboratory can reproduce the observed near-infrared photo-polarimetric properties of the HR 4796 disc. Experimental characterisation of dust allows to bypass the current limitations of dust models to reproduce simultaneously the phase function, the degree of polarisation and the spectral reflectance.

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hal-04327052 , version 1 (06-12-2023)

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Julien Milli, Olivier Poch, Jean-Baptiste Renard, Jean-Charles Augereau, Pierre Beck, et al.. Insight from laboratory measurements on dust in debris discs. SF2A 2023 - Annual Meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Jun 2023, Strasbourg, France. ⟨10.48550/arXiv.2312.02038⟩. ⟨hal-04327052⟩
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