Disks and Planets Around Massive White Dwarfs

Inst. of Astronomy); J. E. Pringle (Univ. of St. Andrews; K. Wood (Univ. of St. Andrews); M. Livio (Space Telescope; Univ. of St. Andrews)

arxiv: astro-ph/0508678 · v1 · submitted 2005-08-31 · 🌌 astro-ph

Disks and Planets Around Massive White Dwarfs

M. Livio (Space Telescope , Univ. of St. Andrews) , J. E. Pringle (Univ. of St. Andrews , Inst. of Astronomy) , K. Wood (Univ. of St. Andrews) This is my paper

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We predict the existence of dusty disks and possibly CO planets around massive white dwarfs. We show that the thermal emission from these disks should be detectable in the infrared. The planets may also be detectable either by direct IR imaging, spectroscopy, or using the pulsations of the white dwarfs.

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