Astronomy & Astrophysics manuscript no. ms c ESO 2018 November 1, 2018 AKARI/IRC 18 µm Survey of Warm Debris Disks Hideaki Fujiwara1, Daisuke Ishihara2, Takashi Onaka3, Satoshi Takita4, Hirokazu Kataza4, Takuya Yamashita5, Misato Fukagawa6, Takafumi Ootsubo7, Takanori Hirao8, Keigo Enya4, Jonathan P. Marshall9, Glenn J. White10,11, Takao Nakagawa4, and Hiroshi Murakami4 1 Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 650 North A’ohoku Place, Hilo, HI 96720, USA e-mail:
[email protected] 2 Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan 3 Department of Astronomy, School of Science, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan 4 Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-5210, Japan 5 National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-0015, Japan 6 Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan 7 Astronomical Institute, Tohoku University, 6-3 Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan 8 Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society, Japan Science and Technology Agency, K’s Gobancho Bldg, 7, Gobancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0076, JAPAN 9 Departmento F´ısica Te´orica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Aut´onoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain 10 Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK 11 Space Science & Technology Department, The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, UK Received 19 June 2012 / Accepted 21 November 2012 ABSTRACT Context. Little is known about the properties of the warm (Tdust & 150 K) debris disk material located close to the central star, which has a more direct link to the formation of terrestrial planets than the low temperature debris dust that has been detected to date.