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 …

I spy transits and pulsations: Empirical variability in white dwarfs using Gaia and the Zwicky Transient Facility

JA Guidry, ZP Vanderbosch, JJ Hermes… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a novel method to detect variable astrophysical objects and transient
phenomena using anomalous excess scatter in repeated measurements from public …

Science with a small two-band UV-photometry mission II: Observations of stars and stellar systems

J Krtička, J Benáček, J Budaj, D Korčáková, A Pál… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
We outline the impact of a small two-band UV-photometry satellite mission on the field of
stellar physics, magnetospheres of stars, binaries, stellar clusters, interstellar matter, and …

ULTRASAT: A wide-field time-domain UV space telescope

Y Shvartzvald, E Waxman, A Gal-Yam… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) is scheduled to be
launched to geostationary orbit in 2027. It will carry a telescope with an unprecedentedly …

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 …

The frequency of gaseous debris discs around white dwarfs

CJ Manser, BT Gänsicke… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A total of 1–3 per cent of white dwarfs are orbited by planetary dusty debris
detectable as infrared emission in excess above the white dwarf flux. In a rare subset of …

Relentless and complex transits from a planetesimal debris disc

J Farihi, JJ Hermes, TR Marsh, AJ Mustill… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This article reports quasi-continuous transiting events towards WD 1054–226 at d= 36.2 pc
and V= 16.0 mag, based on simultaneous, high-cadence, multiwavelength imaging …

A dearth of small particles in the transiting material around the white dwarf WD 1145+ 017

S Xu, S Rappaport, R van Lieshout… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
White dwarf WD 1145+ 017 is orbited by several clouds of dust, possibly emanating from
actively disintegrating bodies. These dust clouds reveal themselves through deep, broad …

Orbital relaxation and excitation of planets tidally interacting with white dwarfs

D Veras, M Efroimsky, VV Makarov… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Observational evidence of white dwarf planetary systems is dominated by the remains of exo-
asteroids through accreted metals, debris discs, and orbiting planetesimals. However, exo …

Fast spectrophotometry of WD 1145+ 017

P Izquierdo, P Rodríguez-Gil… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT WD 1145+ 017 is currently the only white dwarf known to exhibit periodic
transits of planetary debris as well as absorption lines from circumstellar gas. We present the …