A gaseous metal disk around a white dwarf

Details A gaseous metal disk around a white dwarf A gaseous metal disk around a white dwarf

2006-12-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612697v2

Vol. 314. no. 5807, pp. 1908 - 1910

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Published 22 December in Science, added journal ref

Scientific paper

10.1126/science.1135033

The destiny of planetary systems through the late evolution of their host stars is very uncertain. We report a metal-rich gas disk around a moderately hot and young white dwarf. A dynamical model of the double-peaked emission lines constrains the outer disk radius to just 1.2 solar radii. The likely origin of the disk is a tidally disrupted asteroid, which has been destabilised from its initial orbit at a distance of more than 1000 solar radii by the interaction with a relatively massive planetesimal object or a planet. The white dwarf mass of 0.77 solar masses implies that planetary systems may form around high-mass stars.

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