4 papers
High Velocity Circumstellar Gas Orbiting a White Dwarf Star
B. Zuckerman, Ãrika Le Bourdais, Beth L. Klein +6
Numerous white dwarf stars are known to be orbited by disks of gas and dust. To date, broad, about 300 km s-1 wide, gaseous circumstellar absorption features have only been reporte…
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…
Tracing Planetary Accretion in a 3 Gyr-old Hydrogen-Rich White Dwarf: The Extremely Polluted Atmosphere of LSPM J0207+3331
Ãrika Le Bourdais, Patrick Dufour, Carl Melis +7
We report the detection of 13 heavy elements (Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Sr) in the photosphere of LSPM J0207+3331, a ~3 Gyr old hydrogen-rich white dwarf…
Characterizing planetary material accreted by cool helium atmosphere white dwarfs using an exponentially decaying disc model
Mairi W. O'Brien, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Beth L. Klein +5
We present Keck High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) observations and model atmosphere analysis for two nearby, cool, helium-dominated atmosphere white dwarfs that have bee…