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20182026
most citedA transmission spectrum of the planet candidate WD 1856+534 b and a lower limit to its mass

15 citations · 38 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Magnetically guided accretion and extremely slow rotation in a metal-enriched white dwarf

S. Bagnulo, M. A. Stroet, C. P. Folsom +3

White dwarfs that show atmospheric metal enrichment offer a direct window into the bulk composition of exoplanetary material and provide some of the most direct constraints on the…

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.SR2026

A systematic survey for hypervelocity runaways from thermonuclear supernovae

Kareem El-Badry, Klaus Werner, Ken J. Shen +16

The explosion of a white dwarf (WD) in a close binary can launch a surviving runaway star at velocities of . Such runaways provide a direct probe of…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 1 cited

Discovery of a runaway star likely ejected by a Type Iax Supernova

A. Bhat, M. Hollands, M. Dorsch +5

Over the past decade, runaway stars have been identified, believed to originate either as surviving donors of Type Ia supernovae or as partially deflagrated accretors producing Typ…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

A hot white dwarf merger remnant revealed by an ultraviolet detection of carbon

Snehalata Sahu, Antoine Bédard, Boris T. Gänsicke +7

Atmospheric carbon has been detected in the optical spectra of six hydrogen-rich ultra-massive white dwarfs, revealing large carbon abundances (log C/H > 0.5) attributable to th…

astro-ph.SR2024

Metal accretion scars may be common on magnetic, polluted white dwarfs

S. Bagnulo, J. D. Landstreet, J. Farihi +3

More than 30% of white dwarfs exhibit atmospheric metals, which are understood to be from recent or ongoing accretion of circumstellar debris. In cool white dwarfs, surface motions…

astro-ph.EP2024

White Dwarf Pollution: One Star or Two?

Hiba Tu Noor, Jay Farihi, Mark Hollands +1

The accretion of tidally disrupted planetary bodies is the current consensus model for the presence of photospheric metals commonly detected in white dwarfs. While most dynamical s…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 5 cited

J0526+5934: a peculiar ultra-short period double white dwarf

Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas, Mark Hollands, Steven G. Parsons +6

Ultra-short period compact binaries are important sources of gravitational waves, which include e.g. the progenitors of type Ia supernovae or the progenitors of merger episodes tha…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 15 cited

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…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 14 cited

Multi-wavelength observations of the EUV variable metal-rich white dwarf GD 394

David J. Wilson, Boris T. Gaensicke, Detlev Koester +13

We present new Hubble Space Telescope (HST) ultraviolet and ground-based optical observations of the hot, metal-rich white dwarf GD 394. Extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) observations in 1…