What Sets the Radial Locations of Warm Debris Disks?
Nicholas P. Ballering, George H. Rieke, Kate Y. L. Su, Andr\'as, G\'asp\'ar

TL;DR
This study analyzes debris disk spectral energy distributions to determine whether warm dust locations are linked to the primordial or current snow line, revealing a preference for the primordial snow line in single-component systems.
Contribution
It provides evidence that warm debris disks in single-component systems are primarily associated with the primordial snow line, offering insights into their origin and the history of planet formation.
Findings
Warm components in single-component systems follow the primordial snow line.
Many warm components in two-component systems are consistent with the primordial snow line.
Diversity in two-component systems suggests additional factors influence warm dust locations.
Abstract
The architectures of debris disks encode the history of planet formation in these systems. Studies of debris disks via their spectral energy distributions (SEDs) have found infrared excesses arising from cold dust, warm dust, or a combination of the two. The cold outer belts of many systems have been imaged, facilitating their study in great detail. Far less is known about the warm components, including the origin of the dust. The regularity of the disk temperatures indicates an underlying structure that may be linked to the water snow line. If the dust is generated from collisions in an exo-asteroid belt, the dust will likely trace the location of the water snow line in the primordial protoplanetary disk where planetesimal growth was enhanced. If instead the warm dust arises from the inward transport from a reservoir of icy material farther out in the system, the dust location is…
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