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Planetary Accretion Is Less Frequent in Wide Binaries: Evidence from Metal-Enriched White Dwarfs in DESI DR1
Siyi Xu, Laura. K. Rogers, Joan Najita +32
Binary stars are common in the Galaxy, and understanding how stellar binarity influences the formation and evolution of planetary systems is an active area of research. In this stu…
The DESI Data Release 1 white dwarf catalogue
Andrew Swan, Boris T. Gänsicke, Paula Izquierdo +49
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is conducting a redshift survey, mapping the universe in three dimensions to measure the history of cosmic expansion. As well as extragalac…
1000 cataclysmic variables identified from DESI spectroscopy
K. Inight, B. T. Gänsicke, A. Aungwerojwit +41
Most cataclysmic variables (CVs) are discovered when they have an outburst generating an inherent selection bias against CVs that rarely, or never, outburst. CVs discovered by virt…
First planetesimals from DESI DR1: 12 highly metal-rich white dwarfs
Paula Izquierdo, Andrew Swan, Boris T. Gänsicke +43
Metal-enriched white dwarfs provide a unique insight into the composition of exoplanet interiors. These stars accrete the debris of disrupted planetary bodies, and hence, measuring…
I Can Do It With A Broken Planetesimal: Characterising the planetary debris in heavily polluted cool white dwarfs
Anna-Maria Cutolo, Boris T. Gänsicke, Andrew Swan +7
We present the analysis of four cool and strongly metal-polluted H-atmosphere white dwarfs observed with X-shooter. We compared their atmospheric parameters obtained from spectrosc…
The frequency of metal-enrichment of cool helium-atmosphere white dwarfs using the DESI Early Data Release
Christopher J. Manser, Boris T. Gänsicke, Paula Izquierdo +35
There is overwhelming evidence that white dwarfs host planetary systems; revealed by the presence, disruption, and accretion of planetary bodies. A lower limit on the frequency of…
The DESI Early Data Release White Dwarf Catalogue
Christopher J. Manser, Paula Izquierdo, Boris T. Gänsicke +51
The Early Data Release (EDR) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) comprises spectroscopy obtained from 2020 December 14 to 2021 June 10. White dwarfs were targeted by…
Systematic uncertainties in the characterisation of helium-dominated metal-polluted white dwarf atmospheres
Paula Izquierdo, Boris T. Gänsicke, Pablo Rodríguez-Gil +5
White dwarf photospheric parameters are usually obtained by means of spectroscopic or photometric analysis. These results are not always consistent with each other, with the publis…
Ultralight bosonic dark matter in white dwarfs and potential observational consequences
Nicolas Sanchis-Gual, Paula Izquierdo
Fluid and ultralight bosonic dark matter can interact through gravity to form stable fermion-boson stars, which are static and regular mixed solutions of the Einstein-Euler-(comple…
Velocity-imaging the rapidly precessing planetary disc around the white dwarf HE 1349-2305 using Doppler tomography
Christopher J. Manser, Erik Dennihy, Boris T. Gänsicke +11
The presence of planetary material in white dwarf atmospheres, thought to be accreted from a dusty debris disc produced via the tidal disruption of a planetesimal, is common. Appro…
Relentless and Complex Transits from a Planetesimal Debris Disk
J. Farihi, J. J. Hermes, T. R. Marsh +11
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, multi-wavelength imaging photometry us…
A transmission spectrum of the planet candidate WD 1856+534 b and a lower limit to its mass
R. Alonso, P. Rodríguez-Gil, P. Izquierdo +7
The cool white dwarf WD 1856+534 was found to be transited by a Jupiter-sized object with a mass at or below 14 M. We used the GTC telescope to obtain and analyse phot…
GD424 -- a helium-atmosphere white dwarf with a large amount of trace hydrogen in the process of digesting a rocky planetesimal
Paula Izquierdo, Odette Toloza, Boris T. Gänsicke +5
The photospheric metal pollution of white dwarfs is now well-established as the signature of the accretion of planetary debris. However, the origin of the trace hydrogen detected i…
White dwarfs with planetary remnants in the era of Gaia I: six emission line systems
N. P. Gentile Fusillo, C. J. Manser, Boris T. Gänsicke +17
White dwarfs with emission lines from gaseous debris discs are among the rarest examples of planetary remnant hosts, but at the same time they are key objects for studying the fina…
HORuS transmission spectroscopy of 55 Cnc e
H. M. Tabernero, C. Allende Prieto, M. R. Zapatero Osorio +16
The High Optical Resolution Spectrograph (HORuS) is a new high-resolution echelle spectrograph available on the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). We report on the first HORuS…
white dwarfs within 40 pc II: the volume-limited northern hemisphere sample
Jack McCleery, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo +6
We present an overview of the sample of northern hemisphere white dwarfs within 40 pc of the Sun detected from Data Release 2 (DR2). We find that 521 sources are spectroscop…
white dwarfs within 40 pc I: spectroscopic observations of new candidates
P. -E. Tremblay, M. A. Hollands, N. P. Gentile Fusillo +30
We present a spectroscopic survey of 230 white dwarf candidates within 40 pc of the Sun from the William Herschel Telescope and Gran Telescopio Canarias. All candidates were select…
Spectroscopic and Photometric Periods of Six Ultracompact Accreting Binaries
Matthew J. Green, Thomas R. Marsh, Philip J. Carter +19
Ultracompact accreting binary systems each consist of a stellar remnant accreting helium-enriched material from a compact donor star. Such binaries include two related sub-classes,…
An ultra-massive white dwarf with a mixed hydrogen-carbon atmosphere as a likely merger remnant
Mark A. Hollands, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Boris T. Gänsicke +11
White dwarfs are dense, cooling stellar embers consisting mostly of carbon and oxygen, or oxygen and neon (with a few percent carbon) at higher initial stellar masses. These stella…
When the disc's away, the stars will play: dynamical masses in the nova-like variable KR Aur with a pinch of accretion
P. Rodríguez-Gil, T. Shahbaz, M. A. P. Torres +8
We obtained time-resolved optical photometry and spectroscopy of the nova-like variable KR Aurigae in the low state. The spectrum reveals a DAB white dwarf and a mid-M dwarf compan…
The frequency of gaseous debris discs around white dwarfs
Christopher J. Manser, Boris T. Gänsicke, Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo +5
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 these systems, a gaseou…
A White Dwarf with Transiting Circumstellar Material Far Outside the Roche Limit
Z. Vanderbosch, J. J. Hermes, E. Dennihy +9
We report the discovery of a white dwarf exhibiting deep, irregularly shaped transits, indicative of circumstellar planetary debris. Using Zwicky Transient Facility DR2 photometry…
Astro 2020 Science White Paper: Evolved Planetary Systems around White Dwarfs
Boris Gaensicke, Martin Barstow, Amy Bonsor +25
Practically all known planet hosts will evolve into white dwarfs, and large parts of their planetary systems will survive this transition - the same is true for the solar system be…
A planetesimal orbiting within the debris disc around a white dwarf star
Christopher J. Manser, Boris T. Gänsicke, Siegfried Eggl +29
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, vi…