Finding Warm Debris Disks with WISE Around Bright Stars

Abstract

The WISE All-Sky Survey Catalog presents an opportunity to expand the number of detections of warm (>100K) circumstellar dust in asteroid belt-analog regions. Such detections are useful to statistically constrain the occurrence rate of dusty systems, and imaging campaigns aiming to characterize the morphology of the dust populations can choose their targets form the nearest ( 30μm excesses (289, with 171 in common), even if the latter have been found to have a higher occurrence rate. 114 Finding Warm Debris Disks with WISE Around Bright Stars