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Tracing Planetary Accretion in a 3 Gyr-old Hydrogen-Rich White Dwarf: The Extremely Polluted Atmosphere of LSPM J0207+3331
Érika Le Bourdais, Patrick Dufour, Carl Melis +7
We report the detection of 13 heavy elements (Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Sr) in the photosphere of LSPM J0207+3331, a ~3 Gyr old hydrogen-rich white dwarf…
Sporadic Dips from Extended Debris Transiting the Metal-Rich White Dwarf SBSS 1232+563
J. J. Hermes, Joseph A. Guidry, Zachary P. Vanderbosch +5
We present the discovery of deep but sporadic transits in the flux of SBSS 1232+563, a metal-rich white dwarf polluted by disrupted exoplanetary debris. Nearly 25 years of photomet…
Revisiting the Chemical Composition of WD 1145+017: Impact of Circumstellar Disks Contamination on Photospheric Abundances
Érika Le Bourdais, Patrick Dufour, Siyi Xu
We performed a chemical analysis of the asteroid-bearing white dwarf WD 1145+017 using optical and ultraviolet spectroscopic data from 25 epochs between 2015 and 2023. We present a…
Gaia0007-1605: an old triple system with an inner brown dwarf-white dwarf binary and an outer white dwarf companion
Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas, Siyi Xu, Roberto Raddi +5
We identify Gaia0007-1605AC as the first inner brown dwarf-white dwarf binary of a hierarchical triple system in which the outer component is another white dwarf (Gaia0007-1605B).…
HST/WFC3 Complete Phase-resolved Spectroscopy of White Dwarf-Brown Dwarf Binaries WD 0137 and EPIC 2122
Yifan Zhou, Dániel Apai, Xianyu Tan +7
Brown dwarfs in close-in orbits around white dwarfs offer an excellent opportunity to investigate properties of fast-rotating, tidally-locked, and highly-irradiated atmospheres. We…
Mapping the pressure-dependent day-night temperature contrast of a strongly irradiated atmosphere with HST spectroscopic phase curve
Ben W. P. Lew, Dániel Apai, Yifan Zhou +6
Many brown dwarfs are on ultra-short period and tidally-locked orbits around white dwarf hosts. Because of these small orbital separations, the brown dwarfs are irradiated at level…
Infrared Excesses around Bright White Dwarfs from Gaia and unWISE. II
Samuel Lai, Erik Dennihy, Siyi Xu +7
Infrared excesses around white dwarf stars indicate the presence of various astrophysical objects of interest, including companions and debris disks. In this second paper of a seri…
Five New Post-Main-Sequence Debris Disks with Gaseous Emission
Erik Dennihy, Siyi Xu, Samuel Lai +13
Observations of debris disks, the products of the collisional evolution of rocky planetesimals, can be used to trace planetary activity across a wide range of stellar types. The mo…
Exocomets from a Solar System Perspective
Paul A. Strøm, Dennis Bodewits, Matthew M. Knight +24
Exocomets are small bodies releasing gas and dust which orbit stars other than the Sun. Their existence was first inferred from the detection of variable absorption features in ste…