Circumstellar dust

Circumstellar dust is astronomical dust around a star. It can be in the form of a spherical shell or a disc, e.g. an accretion disk. Circumstellar dust can be responsible for significant extinction and is usually the source of an infrared excess for stars that have it.

The motion of circumstellar dust is governed by forces due to stellar gravity and radiation pressure.

Circumstellar dust in the Solar System causes the zodiacal light.

Sources

J. Mayo Greenberg, H. C. Van De Hulst. Interstellar Dust and Related Topics. Springer Science & Business Media, 2013. ISBN 9401026645.
Hans-Peter Gail, Erwin Sedlmayr. Physics and Chemistry of Circumstellar Dust Shells. Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN 0521833795.
K. S. Krishna Swamy. "Chapter 6: Circumstellar dust". Dust in the Universe: Similarities and Differences. World Scientific, 2005. ISBN 9812562931.
Marshall Dimsey Perrin. A High Angular Resolution Survey of Circumstellar Dust Around Herbig Ae/Be Stars. University of California, Berkeley, 2006. ISBN 1109923074.
Wilfred Henry Sorrell. A Theoretical Study of Circumstellar Dust Around Ae/Be Stars. University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1989.

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