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Disks and Planets Around Massive White Dwarfs

Astrophysics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

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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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0508678,
  title  = {Disks and Planets Around Massive White Dwarfs},
  author = {M. Livio and J. E. Pringle and K. Wood},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0508678},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, 1 figure; accepted ApJL

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