2 papers
astro-ph.SR2024
Hunting for Polluted White Dwarfs and Other Treasures with Gaia XP Spectra and Unsupervised Machine Learning
Malia L. Kao, Keith Hawkins, Laura K. Rogers +5
White dwarfs (WDs) polluted by exoplanetary material provide the unprecedented opportunity to directly observe the interiors of exoplanets. However, spectroscopic surveys are often…
astro-ph.SR2023
Fluid Mixing during Phase Separation in Crystallizing White Dwarfs
M. H. Montgomery, Bart H. Dunlap
Accurate models of cooling white dwarfs must treat the energy released as their cores crystallize. This phase transition slows the cooling by releasing latent heat and also gravita…