Post-main-sequence planetary system evolution

D Veras - Royal Society Open Science, 2016‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The fates of planetary systems provide unassailable insights into their formation and
represent rich cross-disciplinary dynamical laboratories. Mounting observations of post-main …

The evolution and delivery of rocky extra-solar materials to white dwarfs

D Veras, AJ Mustill, A Bonsor - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2024‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The most direct and substantial way to measure the geochemistry of extrasolar objects is to
perform chemical autopsies on their broken-up remains. However, traditional ways of …

A giant planet candidate transiting a white dwarf

A Vanderburg, SA Rappaport, S Xu, IJM Crossfield… - Nature, 2020‏ - nature.com
Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets outside the Solar System, most of which
orbit stars that will eventually evolve into red giants and then into white dwarfs. During the …

Accretion of a giant planet onto a white dwarf star

BT Gänsicke, MR Schreiber, O Toloza, NPG Fusillo… - Nature, 2019‏ - nature.com
The detection of a dust disk around the white dwarf star G29-38 and transits from debris
orbiting the white dwarf WD 1145+ 017 (ref.) confirmed that the photospheric trace metals …

A planetesimal orbiting within the debris disc around a white dwarf star

CJ Manser, BT Gänsicke, S Eggl, M Hollands… - Science, 2019‏ - science.org
Many white dwarf stars show signs of having accreted smaller bodies, implying that they
may host planetary systems. A small number of these systems contain gaseous debris discs …

In defense of the black box

EA Holm - Science, 2019‏ - science.org
The science fiction writer Douglas Adams imagined the greatest computer ever built, Deep
Thought, programmed to answer the deepest question ever asked: the Great Question of …

A white dwarf with transiting circumstellar material far outside the Roche limit

Z Vanderbosch, JJ Hermes, E Dennihy… - The Astrophysical …, 2020‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of a white dwarf exhibiting deep, irregularly shaped transits,
indicative of circumstellar planetary debris. Using Zwicky Transient Facility DR2 photometry …

Unstable low-mass planetary systems as drivers of white dwarf pollution

AJ Mustill, E Villaver, D Veras… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
At least of white dwarfs show atmospheric pollution by metals, sometimes accompanied by
detectable circumstellar dust/gas discs or (in the case of WD 1145+ 017) transiting …

Cool DZ white dwarfs–I. Identification and spectral analysis

MA Hollands, D Koester, V Alekseev… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
White dwarfs with metal lines in their spectra act as signposts for post-main-sequence
planetary systems. Searching the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 12, we …

Planetary systems around white dwarfs

D Veras - arxiv preprint arxiv:2106.06550, 2021‏ - arxiv.org
White dwarf planetary science is a rapidly growing field of research featuring a diverse set of
observations and theoretical explorations. Giant planets, minor planets, and debris discs …