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| author | Han, Yinuo Mansell, Elias Jennings, Jeff Marino, Sebastian Hughes, A. Meredith Zawadzki, Brianna Fehr, Anna Kittling, Jamar Hou, Catherine Nurmohamed, Aliya Lee, Junu Cheruiyot, Allan Mpofu, Yamani Booth, Mark Booth, Richard Bonduelle, Myriam Brennan, Aoife del Burgo, Carlos Carpenter, John M. Cataldi, Gianni Chiang, Eugene Ertel, Steve Henning, Thomas Jankovic, Marija R. Kóspál, Ágnes Krivov, Alexander V. Lovell, Joshua B. Luppe, Patricia MacGregor, Meredith A. Mac Manamon, Sorcha Marshall, Jonathan P. Matrà, Luca Milli, Julien Moór, Attila Olofsson, Johan Pearce, Tim Pérez, Sebastián Sefilian, Antranik A. Weber, Philipp Wilner, David J. Wyatt, Mark C. |
| author_facet | Han, Yinuo Mansell, Elias Jennings, Jeff Marino, Sebastian Hughes, A. Meredith Zawadzki, Brianna Fehr, Anna Kittling, Jamar Hou, Catherine Nurmohamed, Aliya Lee, Junu Cheruiyot, Allan Mpofu, Yamani Booth, Mark Booth, Richard Bonduelle, Myriam Brennan, Aoife del Burgo, Carlos Carpenter, John M. Cataldi, Gianni Chiang, Eugene Ertel, Steve Henning, Thomas Jankovic, Marija R. Kóspál, Ágnes Krivov, Alexander V. Lovell, Joshua B. Luppe, Patricia MacGregor, Meredith A. Mac Manamon, Sorcha Marshall, Jonathan P. Matrà, Luca Milli, Julien Moór, Attila Olofsson, Johan Pearce, Tim Pérez, Sebastián Sefilian, Antranik A. Weber, Philipp Wilner, David J. Wyatt, Mark C. |
| contents | The ALMA survey to Resolve exoKuiper belt Substructures (ARKS) was recently completed to cover the lack of high-resolution observations of debris discs and to investigate the prevalence of substructures such as radial gaps and rings in a sample of 24 discs. This study characterises the radial structure of debris discs in the ARKS programme. To identify and quantify the disc substructures, we modelled all discs with a range of non-parametric and parametric approaches. We find that of the 24 discs in the sample, 5 host multiple rings, 7 are single rings that display halos or additional low-amplitude rings, and 12 are single rings with at most tentative evidence of additional substructures. The fractional ring widths that we measured are significantly narrower than previously derived values, and they follow a distribution similar to the fractional widths of individual rings resolved in protoplanetary discs. However, there exists a population of rings in debris discs that are significantly wider than those in protoplanetary discs. We also find that discs with steep inner edges consistent with planet sculpting tend to be found at smaller (<100 au) radii, while more radially extended discs tend to have shallower edges more consistent with collisional evolution. An overwhelming majority of discs have radial profiles well-described by either a double power law or double-Gaussian parametrisation. While our findings suggest that it may be possible for some debris discs to inherit their structures directly from protoplanetary discs, there exists a sizeable population of broad debris discs that cannot be explained in this way. Assuming that the distribution of millimetre dust reflects the distribution of planetesimals, mechanisms that cause rings in protoplanetary discs to migrate or debris discs to broaden soon after formation may be at play, possibly mediated by planetary migration or scattering. |
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| institution | arXiv |
| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | The ALMA survey to Resolve exoKuiper belt Substructures (ARKS) II. The radial structure of debris discs Han, Yinuo Mansell, Elias Jennings, Jeff Marino, Sebastian Hughes, A. Meredith Zawadzki, Brianna Fehr, Anna Kittling, Jamar Hou, Catherine Nurmohamed, Aliya Lee, Junu Cheruiyot, Allan Mpofu, Yamani Booth, Mark Booth, Richard Bonduelle, Myriam Brennan, Aoife del Burgo, Carlos Carpenter, John M. Cataldi, Gianni Chiang, Eugene Ertel, Steve Henning, Thomas Jankovic, Marija R. Kóspál, Ágnes Krivov, Alexander V. Lovell, Joshua B. Luppe, Patricia MacGregor, Meredith A. Mac Manamon, Sorcha Marshall, Jonathan P. Matrà, Luca Milli, Julien Moór, Attila Olofsson, Johan Pearce, Tim Pérez, Sebastián Sefilian, Antranik A. Weber, Philipp Wilner, David J. Wyatt, Mark C. Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics The ALMA survey to Resolve exoKuiper belt Substructures (ARKS) was recently completed to cover the lack of high-resolution observations of debris discs and to investigate the prevalence of substructures such as radial gaps and rings in a sample of 24 discs. This study characterises the radial structure of debris discs in the ARKS programme. To identify and quantify the disc substructures, we modelled all discs with a range of non-parametric and parametric approaches. We find that of the 24 discs in the sample, 5 host multiple rings, 7 are single rings that display halos or additional low-amplitude rings, and 12 are single rings with at most tentative evidence of additional substructures. The fractional ring widths that we measured are significantly narrower than previously derived values, and they follow a distribution similar to the fractional widths of individual rings resolved in protoplanetary discs. However, there exists a population of rings in debris discs that are significantly wider than those in protoplanetary discs. We also find that discs with steep inner edges consistent with planet sculpting tend to be found at smaller (<100 au) radii, while more radially extended discs tend to have shallower edges more consistent with collisional evolution. An overwhelming majority of discs have radial profiles well-described by either a double power law or double-Gaussian parametrisation. While our findings suggest that it may be possible for some debris discs to inherit their structures directly from protoplanetary discs, there exists a sizeable population of broad debris discs that cannot be explained in this way. Assuming that the distribution of millimetre dust reflects the distribution of planetesimals, mechanisms that cause rings in protoplanetary discs to migrate or debris discs to broaden soon after formation may be at play, possibly mediated by planetary migration or scattering. |
| title | The ALMA survey to Resolve exoKuiper belt Substructures (ARKS) II. The radial structure of debris discs |
| topic | Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13670 |