6 papers
Transiting Planetary Debris near the Roche Limit of a White Dwarf on a 4.97hr Orbit -- and its Vanishing
Joseph A. Guidry, Zachary P. Vanderbosch, J. J. Hermes +9
We present the discovery of deep, irregular, periodic transits towards the white dwarf ZTFJ19444557 using follow-up time-series photometry and spectroscopy from Palomar, Kec…
A ZTF Search for Circumstellar Debris Transits in White Dwarfs: Six New Candidates, one with Gas Disk Emission, identified in a Novel Metric Space
Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee, Zachary P. Vanderbosch, Mark A. Hollands +13
White dwarfs (WDs) showing transits from orbiting planetary debris provide significant insights into the structure and dynamics of debris disks. This is a rare class of objects wit…
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…
Rotation at the Fully Convective Boundary: Insights from Wide WD + MS Binary Systems
Federica Chiti, Jennifer L. van Saders, Tyler M. Heintz +5
Gyrochronology, a valuable tool for determining ages of low-mass stars where other techniques fail, relies on accurate calibration. We present a sample of 185 wide ( au) wh…
The PLATO Mission
Heike Rauer, Conny Aerts, Juan Cabrera +842
PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is ESA's M3 mission designed to detect and characterise extrasolar planets and perform asteroseismic monitoring of a large numb…
Constraints on Remnant Planetary Systems as a Function of Main-Sequence Mass with HST/COS
Lou Baya Ould Rouis, J. J. Hermes, Boris T. Gänsicke +8
As the descendants of stars with masses less than 8 M on the main sequence, white dwarfs provide a unique way to constrain planetary occurrence around intermediate-mass s…