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most citedInfrared Excesses around Bright White Dwarfs from Gaia and unWISE I

46 citations · 50 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Planetary Accretion Is Less Frequent in Wide Binaries: Evidence from Metal-Enriched White Dwarfs in DESI DR1

Siyi Xu, Laura. K. Rogers, Joan Najita +32

Binary stars are common in the Galaxy, and understanding how stellar binarity influences the formation and evolution of planetary systems is an active area of research. In this stu…

astro-ph.SR2026

The DESI Data Release 1 white dwarf catalogue

Andrew Swan, Boris T. Gänsicke, Paula Izquierdo +49

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is conducting a redshift survey, mapping the universe in three dimensions to measure the history of cosmic expansion. As well as extragalac…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 1 cited

White Dwarfs with Infrared Excess from LAMOST Data Release 11

Keyi Wang, Qiong Liu, Siyi Xu +1

Infrared (IR) excess observed around white dwarfs (WDs) is typically attributed to companions or debris disks. These systems are interesting because they offer a unique opportunity…

astro-ph.IM2025

White dwarfs as probes of extrasolar planet compositions and fundamental astrophysics

Siyi Xu, Martin Barstow, Andy Buchan +2

White dwarfs represent the most common end stage of stellar evolution and are important for a range of astrophysical questions. The high-resolution ultraviolet spectroscopic capabi…

astro-ph.EP2024

Simultaneous emission from dust and gas in the planetary debris orbiting a white dwarf

Laura K. Rogers, Christopher J. Manser, Amy Bonsor +11

There is increasing evidence for the presence and variability of circumstellar dust and gas around white dwarfs that are polluted with exoplanetary material, although the origin of…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

The chemistry of extra-solar materials from white dwarf planetary systems

Siyi Xu, Laura K. Rogers, Simon Blouin

White dwarf planetary systems provide a unique way to measure the bulk composition of exoplanetary material. Extrasolar asteroids/comets/moons which have survived the evolution of…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 2 cited

PHL 5038AB: Is the brown dwarf causing pollution of its white dwarf host star?

S. L. Casewell, J. Debes, T. J. Dupuy +9

We present new results on PHL 5038AB, a widely separated binary system composed of a white dwarf and a brown dwarf, refining the white and brown dwarf parameters and determining th…

astro-ph.EP2024

The frequency of metal-enrichment of cool helium-atmosphere white dwarfs using the DESI Early Data Release

Christopher J. Manser, Boris T. Gänsicke, Paula Izquierdo +35

There is overwhelming evidence that white dwarfs host planetary systems; revealed by the presence, disruption, and accretion of planetary bodies. A lower limit on the frequency of…

astro-ph.SR2024

The DESI Early Data Release White Dwarf Catalogue

Christopher J. Manser, Paula Izquierdo, Boris T. Gänsicke +51

The Early Data Release (EDR) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) comprises spectroscopy obtained from 2020 December 14 to 2021 June 10. White dwarfs were targeted by…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 46 cited

Infrared Excesses around Bright White Dwarfs from Gaia and unWISE I

Siyi Xu, Samuel Lai, Erik Dennihy

Studies of excess infrared radiation around white dwarfs provide important constraints on the evolution of planetary systems and low-mass stars beyond the main sequence stage. In t…