Many debris disks exhibit ring, arc and clump-like structires - see figure 1:

Our best-fit model to Vega - M = 3 M_Jup, a = 74 AU and e = 0.1

Our best-fit model to Eps Eridani - M = 0.1 M_Jup, a = 41 AU and e =0.3

Our best-fit model to Fomalhaut - M = 2 M_Jup, a = 60 AU and e = 0.4

Last Updated: May 2004

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