By examining the atomic carbon line from two young star systems--49 Ceti and Beta Pictoris--researchers had found atomic carbon in the disk, the first time this observation has been made at sub-millimeter wavelength, hinting that the gas in debris disks is not primordial, but rather is generated from some process of collisions taking place in the debris disk.
By examining the atomic carbon line from two young star systems--49 Ceti and Beta Pictoris--researchers had found atomic carbon in the disk, the first time this observation has been made at sub-millimeter wavelength, hinting that the gas in debris disks is not primordial, but rather is generated from some process of collisions taking place in the debris disk.
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