3 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
Accretion Rate Changes Detected in a Polluted White Dwarf
Jay Farihi, Hiba Tu Noor, Carl Melis +6
This letter reports statistically significant changes in the equivalent widths of MgII and CaII lines in the dusty and polluted white dwarf WD 0106-328, based on six epochs of spec…
astro-ph.EP2025
Activity in White Dwarf Debris Disks I: Spitzer Legacy Reveals Variability Incompatible with the Canonical Model
Hiba Tu Noor, Jay Farihi, Scott J. Kenyon +11
This study presents all available, multi-epoch 3.6 and 4.5 m photometry from Spitzer Space Telescope observations of white dwarf debris disks, including weekly cadence observati…
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…