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astro-ph.SR2020★ 48 cited

White dwarfs with planetary remnants in the era of Gaia I: six emission line systems

N. P. Gentile Fusillo, C. J. Manser, Boris T. Gänsicke +17

White dwarfs with emission lines from gaseous debris discs are among the rarest examples of planetary remnant hosts, but at the same time they are key objects for studying the fina…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 49 cited

White dwarf pollution by hydrated planetary remnants: Hydrogen and Metals in WD J204713.76-125908.9

Matthew J. Hoskin, Odette Toloza, Boris T. Gänsicke +9

WD J204713.76-125908.9 is a new addition to the small class of white dwarfs with helium-dominated photospheres that exhibit strong Balmer absorption lines and atmospheric metal pol…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 118 cited

white dwarfs within 40 pc II: the volume-limited northern hemisphere sample

Jack McCleery, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo +6

We present an overview of the sample of northern hemisphere white dwarfs within 40 pc of the Sun detected from Data Release 2 (DR2). We find that 521 sources are spectroscop…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 75 cited

white dwarfs within 40 pc I: spectroscopic observations of new candidates

P. -E. Tremblay, M. A. Hollands, N. P. Gentile Fusillo +30

We present a spectroscopic survey of 230 white dwarf candidates within 40 pc of the Sun from the William Herschel Telescope and Gran Telescopio Canarias. All candidates were select…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 60 cited

An ultra-massive white dwarf with a mixed hydrogen-carbon atmosphere as a likely merger remnant

Mark A. Hollands, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Boris T. Gänsicke +11

White dwarfs are dense, cooling stellar embers consisting mostly of carbon and oxygen, or oxygen and neon (with a few percent carbon) at higher initial stellar masses. These stella…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 46 cited

IGAPS: the merged IPHAS and UVEX optical surveys of theNorthern Galactic Plane

M. Monguió, R. Greimel, J. E. Drew +47

The INT Galactic Plane Survey (IGAPS) is the merger of the optical photometric surveys, IPHAS and UVEX, based on data from the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) obtained between 2003 an…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 69 cited

The frequency of gaseous debris discs around white dwarfs

Christopher J. Manser, Boris T. Gänsicke, Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo +5

1-3 per cent of white dwarfs are orbited by planetary dusty debris detectable as infrared emission in excess above the white dwarf flux. In a rare subset of these systems, a gaseou…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 65 cited

Are exoplanetesimals differentiated?

Amy Bonsor, Philip J. Carter, Mark Hollands +3

Metals observed in the atmospheres of white dwarfs suggest that many have recently accreted planetary bodies. In some cases, the compositions observed suggest the accretion of mate…