Molecular Gas Clumps from the Destruction of Icy Bodies in the $\beta$ Pictoris Debris Disk

W. R. F. Dent, M. C. Wyatt, A. Roberge +11

Many stars are surrounded by disks of dusty debris formed in the collisions of asteroids, comets and dwarf planets. But is gas also released in such events? Observations at submm w…