5 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…
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…
Do White Dwarfs Sample Water-Rich Planetary Material?
Isabella L. Trierweiler, Carl Melis, Ãrika Le Bourdais +9
Polluted white dwarfs offer a unique way to directly probe the compositions of exoplanetary bodies. We examine the water content of accreted material using the oxygen abundances of…
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…
Revisiting the Chemical Composition of WD 1145+017: Impact of Circumstellar Disks Contamination on Photospheric Abundances
Ãrika Le Bourdais, Patrick Dufour, Siyi Xu
We performed a chemical analysis of the asteroid-bearing white dwarf WD 1145+017 using optical and ultraviolet spectroscopic data from 25 epochs between 2015 and 2023. We present a…