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 …
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 …
SE Mullally, J Debes, M Cracraft… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of two directly imaged, giant planet candidates orbiting the metal- rich, hydrogen atmosphere white dwarfs WD 1202− 232 and WD 2105− 82. JWST's Mid …
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 …
U Malamud, HB Perets - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We introduce a new hybrid method to perform high-resolution tidal disruption simulations, at arbitrary orbits. An sph code is used to simulate tidal disruptions only in the immediate …
S Blouin, S Xu - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A large fraction of white dwarfs are accreting or have recently accreted rocky material from their planetary systems, thereby 'polluting'their atmospheres with elements …
U Malamud, HB Perets - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We make use of a new hybrid method to simulate the long-term, multiple-orbit disc formation through tidal disruptions of rocky bodies by white dwarfs, at high-resolution and realistic …
U Malamud, E Grishin… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
White dwarf (WD) pollution is thought to arise from the tidal disruption of planetary bodies. The initial fragment stream is extremely eccentric, while observational evidence suggest that …
JL Smallwood, RG Martin, M Livio… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
In the past few decades, observations have revealed signatures of metals polluting the atmospheres of white dwarfs. The diffusion time-scale for metals to sink from the atmosphere …