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Discovery of Beryllium in White Dwarfs Polluted by Planetesimal Accretion
Beth Klein, Alexandra E. Doyle, B. Zuckerman +5
The element beryllium is detected for the first time in white dwarf stars. This discovery in the spectra of two helium-atmosphere white dwarfs was made possible only because of the…
astro-ph.EP2021★ 34 cited
Icy Exomoons Evidenced by Spallogenic Nuclides in Polluted White Dwarfs
Alexandra E. Doyle, Steven J. Desch, Edward D. Young
We present evidence that excesses in Be in polluted white dwarfs (WDs) are the result of accretion of icy exomoons that formed in the radiation belts of giant exoplanets. Here we u…