Talk:Exozodiacal dust

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Exozodi
I'm seeing it abbreviated as "exozodi". Kortoso (talk) 17:00, 28 October 2015 (UTC) Here are three articles I plan to use to add information to this page. "Studies from University of California Yield New Information about Astronomy Research (Planetesimal-driven migration as an explanation for observations of high levels of warm, exozodiacal dust)." Science Letter, 15 Aug. 2014, p. 1372. Expanded Academic ASAP, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=EAIM&sw=w&u=mcc_pv&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA379532558&it=r&asid=d85cfed70530495fc1b88ea5d8ea9b3d. "VLTI detects exozodiacal light." Space Daily, 8 Nov. 2014. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=mcc_pv&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA389282863&it=r&asid=8750c9062ab0ad0af2d57230e5fc436f. http://ky5ry5jk2j.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsummon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Performance+analysis+of+differential+speckle+polarimetry&rft.jtitle=Astronomy+Letters&rft.au=B+S+Safonov&rft.date=2013-04-01&rft.pub=Springer+Science+%26+Business+Media&rft.issn=1063-7737&rft.eissn=1562-6873&rft.volume=39&rft.issue=4&rft.spage=237&rft_id=info:doi/10.1134%2FS106377371304004X&rft.externalDocID=2946818081&paramdict=en-US — Preceding unsigned comment added by JOR2155706 (talk • contribs) 17:06, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I plan to improve this page. Here is a bibliography of sources I plan to use:

-Roberge, Aki, et al. The Exozodiacal Dust Problem for Direct Observations of ... Cambridge, www.bing.com/cr?IG=3663D2C60ED644C88066AF22698E523F&CID=1007E20653336A77368AE90C52356B41&rd=1&h=wVoH3cxfjGn5uLeMGGyzyfT-VHDpp8ufU_GVFkKdjc8&v=1&r=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ast.cam.ac.uk%2f%257Ewyatt%2frcmw12.pdf&p=DevEx,5061.1. Accessed 26 Sept. 2017.

-Kuchner, Marc J., et al. “An 11.6 Micron Keck Search for Exo‐Zodiacal Dust.” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 110, no. 753, Nov. 1998, pp. 1336–1341. JSTOR.

Millian-Gabet, R, et al. “EXOZODIACAL DUST LEVELS FOR NEARBY MAIN-SEQUENCE STARS: A SURVEY WITH THE KECK INTERFEROMETER NULLER.” The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 734, no. 1, 25 May 2011. IOP Science.

-Scott, Nicholas Jon. “Hot Exozodiacal Dust Disks, Their Detection and Variability, as Measured with Long-Baseline Optical Interferometry.” American Astronomical Society, Jan. 2016. Harvard.

Here are my proposed changes to the introduction: "Exozodiacal dust is 1-100 micrometre-sized grains of amorphous carbon and silicate dust that fill the plane of extrasolar planetary systems. It is the exoplanetary analog of zodiacal dust, the 1–100 micrometre-sized dust grains observed in the solar system, especially interior to the asteroid belt. As with the zodiacal dust, these grains are probably produced by outgassingcomets, as well as by collisions among bigger parent bodies like asteroids. Exozodiacal dust clouds are often components of debris disks that are detected around main-sequence stars through their excess infrared emission. Particularly hot exozodiacal disks are also commonly found near spectral type A-K stars.[1] By convention, exozodiacal dust refers to the innermost and hottest part of these debris disks, within a few astronomical units of the star. How exozodiacal dust is so prevalent this close to stars in a subject of debate with several competing theories attempting to explain the phenomenon.[1] The shapes of exozodiacal dust clouds can show the dynamical influence of extrasolar planets, and potentially indicate the presence of these planets. Because it is often located near a star's habitable zone, exozodiacal dust can be an important noise source for attempts to image terrestrial planets. Around 1 in 100 stars in the nearby solar systems show a high content of warm dust that is around 1000 times greater than the average dust emission in the 8.5 - 12 μm range. "

My plans currently are to add a section explaining how exozodiacal dust is formed, and to add a section explaining current controversy surrounding exozodiacal dust. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucaswalls (talk • contribs) 19:47, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

It looks great but the only things I would change is in the first paragraph change in to is so it reads, How exozodiacal dust is so prevalent this close to stars is a subject of debate with several competing theories attempting to explain the phenomenon. And in the third paragraph add an s to observation so it reads, Observations have found that some spectral type A-K... other than that g=everything looks awesome.Cbronsing1 (talk) 20:18, 28 October 2017 (UTC)