Abstract
We used chromospheric activity to determine the ages of 2,820 field stars.. We searched these stars for excess emission at 22 um with the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer. Such excess emission is indicative of a dusty debris disk around a star. We investigated how disk incidence trends with various stellar parameters, and how these parameters evolve with time. We found 22 um excesses around 98 stars (a detection rate of 3.5%). Seventy-four of these 98 excess sources are presented here for the first time. We also measured the abundance of lithium in 8 dusty stars in order to test our stellar age estimates.
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