Supernova blast waves can resupply planetary debris to old white dwarfs by kicking exo-Oort cloud material inward, with metre-sized boulders delivered at least once over a cooling age.
White Dwarf Systems: the Composition of Exoplanets
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We live in an exoplanet revolution, with more than 5,000 exoplanets detected to date. Our ability to characterise individual exoplanets is constantly improving, with exquisite mass and radius measurements for an ever-growing sample of planets, complimented by atmospheric characterisation of lower and lower mass planets. This chapter outlines a complimentary set of observations that uniquely provide bulk elemental compositions for exoplanetary material. Absorption features from metals, including Mg, Fe, Si, O, Ca, Al, Ni and Ti in the white dwarf photosphere characterise the composition of accreted planetary material. These observations highlight the diversity in composition across exoplanetary systems including volatile content and probe key geological processes including the formation of iron cores. Thanks to the many white dwarfs identified by the space satellite {\it Gaia}, a revolution in the spectroscopic characterisation of white dwarfs is underway.
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Resupplying planetary debris to old white dwarfs with supernova blast waves
Supernova blast waves can resupply planetary debris to old white dwarfs by kicking exo-Oort cloud material inward, with metre-sized boulders delivered at least once over a cooling age.