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most citedRotation at the Fully Convective Boundary: Insights from Wide WD + MS Binary Systems

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astro-ph.SR2026

Now you see me, now you don't: Deep, long-lived obscuration events of white dwarfs by dust and debris from disintegrating planetesimals

J. van Roestel, S. Bhattacharjee, J. A. Guidry +22

Transiting dust and debris around white dwarfs provide a direct view of planetary disruption. We report six previously non-variable white dwarfs that underwent single, deep obscura…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Transiting Planetary Debris near the Roche Limit of a White Dwarf on a 4.97hr Orbit -- and its Vanishing

Joseph A. Guidry, Zachary P. Vanderbosch, J. J. Hermes +9

We present the discovery of deep, irregular, periodic transits towards the white dwarf ZTFJ19444557 using follow-up time-series photometry and spectroscopy from Palomar, Kec…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

A ZTF Search for Circumstellar Debris Transits in White Dwarfs: Six New Candidates, one with Gas Disk Emission, identified in a Novel Metric Space

Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee, Zachary P. Vanderbosch, Mark A. Hollands +13

White dwarfs (WDs) showing transits from orbiting planetary debris provide significant insights into the structure and dynamics of debris disks. This is a rare class of objects wit…

astro-ph.SR2025

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…

astro-ph.SR2024

Constraints on Remnant Planetary Systems as a Function of Main-Sequence Mass with HST/COS

Lou Baya Ould Rouis, J. J. Hermes, Boris T. Gänsicke +8

As the descendants of stars with masses less than 8 M on the main sequence, white dwarfs provide a unique way to constrain planetary occurrence around intermediate-mass s…

astro-ph.SR2024

Thirty Two New Bright ZZ Ceti Stars from TESS: Adding Cycles 4 and 5

Alejandra D. Romero, S. O. Kepler, Gabriela Oliveira da Rosa +1

Analyzing all 120 s and 20 s light curves obtained by the TESS satellite up to Sector 69 - the end of the fifth year of observations - for all known white dwarfs and white dwarf ca…

astro-ph.SR2024

Using 3.4-m Variability towards White Dwarfs as a Signpost of Remnant Planetary Systems

Joseph A. Guidry, J. J. Hermes, Kishalay De +3

Roughly 2% of white dwarfs harbor planetary debris disks detectable via infrared excesses, but only a few percent of these disks show a gaseous component, distinguished by their do…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 13 cited

The PLATO Mission

Heike Rauer, Conny Aerts, Juan Cabrera +842

PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is ESA's M3 mission designed to detect and characterise extrasolar planets and perform asteroseismic monitoring of a large numb…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 12 cited

Measuring White Dwarf Variability from Sparsely Sampled Gaia DR3 Multi-Epoch Photometry

Maya Steen, J. J. Hermes, Joseph A. Guidry +5

White dwarf stars are ubiquitous in the Galaxy, and are essential to understanding stellar evolution. While most white dwarfs are photometrically stable and reliable flux standards…

astro-ph.SR2024

A Test of Spectroscopic Age Estimates of White Dwarfs using Wide WD+WD Binaries

Tyler M. Heintz, J. J. Hermes, P. -E. Tremblay +4

White dwarf stars have been used for decades as precise and accurate age indicators. This work presents a test of the reliability of white dwarf total ages when spectroscopic obser…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 16 cited

Rotation at the Fully Convective Boundary: Insights from Wide WD + MS Binary Systems

Federica Chiti, Jennifer L. van Saders, Tyler M. Heintz +5

Gyrochronology, a valuable tool for determining ages of low-mass stars where other techniques fail, relies on accurate calibration. We present a sample of 185 wide ( au) wh…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 16 cited

Flares hunting in hot subdwarf and white dwarf stars from Cycles 1-5 of TESS photometry

Keyu Xing, Weikai Zong, Roberto Silvotti +9

Stellar flares are critical phenomena on stellar surfaces, which are closely tied to stellar magnetism. While extensively studied in main-sequence (MS) stars, their occurrence in e…