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most citedModules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Time-Dependent Convection, Energy Conservation, Automatic Differentiation, and Infrastructure

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astro-ph.SR2019★ 42 cited

Cold giant planets evaporated by hot white dwarfs

Matthias R. Schreiber, Boris T. Gaensicke, Odette Toloza +2

Atmospheric escape from close-in Neptunes and hot Jupiters around sun-like stars driven by extreme ultraviolet (EUV) irradiation plays an important role in the evolution of exo-pla…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 160 cited

Accretion of a giant planet onto a white dwarf

Boris T. Gaensicke, Matthias R. Schreiber, Odette Toloza +3

The detection of a dust disc around G29-38 and transits from debris orbiting WD1145+017 confirmed that the photospheric trace metals found in many white dwarfs arise from the accre…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 36 cited

Calibration of the mixing length theory for structures of helium-dominated atmosphere white dwarfs

Cukanovaite E., P. -E. Tremblay, B. Freytag +5

We perform a calibration of the mixing length parameter at the bottom boundary of the convection zone for helium-dominated atmospheres of white dwarfs. This calibration is based on…

astro-ph.SR2019

A 9-Hr CV With One Outburst in 4 Years of Kepler Data

Zhifei Yu, John Thorstensen, Saul Rappaport +11

During a visual search through the Kepler main-field lightcurves, we have discovered a cataclysmic variable (CV) that experienced only a single 4-day long outburst over four years,…

astro-ph.SR2019

A Volume Limited Sample of Cataclysmic Variables from DR2: Space Density and Population Properties

A. F. Pala, B. T. Gänsicke, E. Breedt +15

We present the first volume-limited sample of cataclysmic variables (CVs), selected using the accurate parallaxes provided by the second data release (DR2) of the ESA $\mathit{Gaia…

astro-ph.EP2019

Astro 2020 Science White Paper: Evolved Planetary Systems around White Dwarfs

Boris Gaensicke, Martin Barstow, Amy Bonsor +25

Practically all known planet hosts will evolve into white dwarfs, and large parts of their planetary systems will survive this transition - the same is true for the solar system be…