Circumstellar debris and pollution at white dwarf stars

J Farihi - New Astronomy Reviews, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Circumstellar disks of planetary debris are now known or suspected to closely orbit
hundreds of white dwarf stars. To date, both data and theory support disks that are entirely …

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 …

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 …

A disintegrating minor planet transiting a white dwarf

A Vanderburg, JA Johnson, S Rappaport, A Bieryla… - Nature, 2015‏ - nature.com
Most stars become white dwarfs after they have exhausted their nuclear fuel (the Sun will be
one such). Between one-quarter and one-half of white dwarfs have elements heavier than …

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 …

OSIRIS-APEX: an OSIRIS-REx extended mission to asteroid apophis

DN DellaGiustina, MC Nolan, AT Polit… - The Planetary …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith
Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft mission characterized and collected a sample from …

Cool DZ white dwarfs II: compositions and evolution of old remnant planetary systems

MA Hollands, BT Gänsicke… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
In a previous study, we analysed the spectra of 230 cool (T eff< 9000 K) white dwarfs
exhibiting strong metal contamination, measuring abundances for Ca, Mg, Fe and in some …

Seven white dwarfs with circumstellar gas discs I: white dwarf parameters and accreted planetary abundances

LK Rogers, A Bonsor, S Xu, P Dufour… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Observations of planetary material polluting the atmospheres of white dwarfs are an
important probe of the bulk composition of exoplanetary material. Medium-and high …

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 …

Polluted white dwarfs: constraints on the origin and geology of exoplanetary material

JHD Harrison, A Bonsor… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
White dwarfs that have accreted rocky planetary bodies provide unique insights regarding
the bulk composition of exoplanetary material. The analysis presented here uses observed …