White Dwarf Planets from GAIA
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2015-05-20 v2 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract
We investigate the potential of high-precision astrometry with GAIA for detection of giant planetary companions to nearby white dwarfs. If one considers that, to date, no confirmed planets around single white dwarfs are known, the results from GAIA will be crucial to study the late-stage evolution of planetary systems and to verify the possibility that 2nd-generation planets are formed.
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@article{arxiv.1011.6493,
title = {White Dwarf Planets from GAIA},
author = {Roberto Silvotti and Alessandro Sozzetti and Mario Lattanzi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.6493},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Part of PlanetsbeyondMS/2010 proceedings http://arxiv.org/html/1011.6606v1, Proc. of the workshop on "Planetary Systems beyond the Main Sequence" (Bamberg, 11-14 August 2010), AIPC in press (eds. S. Schuh, H. Drechsel and U. Heber), 4 pages, 1 figure