The Herschel Cold Debris Disks: Confusion with the Extragalactic Background at 160 mu

Abstract

The Herschel "DUst around NEarby Stars (DUNES)" survey has found a number of debris disk candidates that are apparently very cold, with temperatures near 22K. It has proven difficult to fit their spectral energy distributions with conventional models for debris disks. Given this issue we carefully examine the alternative explanation, that the detections arise from confusion with IR cirrus and/or background galaxies that are not physically associated with the foreground star. We find that such an explanation is consistent with all of these detections.

8 pages, 5 figures, accepted to ApJ, emulateapj format (corrected references)

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