A planetesimal orbiting within the debris disc around a white dwarf star

Christopher J. Manser; Boris T. Gänsicke; Siegfried Eggl; Mark Hollands; Paula Izquierdo; Detlev Koester; John D. Landstreet; Wladimir Lyra; Thomas R. Marsh; Farzana Meru; Alexander J. Mustill; Pablo Rodríguez-Gil; Odette Toloza; Dimitri Veras; David J. Wilson; Matthew R. Burleigh; Melvyn B. Davies; Jay Farihi; Nicola Gentile Fusillo; Domitilla de Martino; Steven G. Parsons; Andreas Quirrenbach; Roberto Raddi; Sabine Reffert; Melania Del Santo; Matthias R. Schreiber; Roberto Silvotti; Silvia Toonen; Eva Villaver; Mark Wyatt; Siyi Xu; Simon Portegies Zwart

doi:10.1126/science.aat5330

A planetesimal orbiting within the debris disc around a white dwarf star

Christopher J. Manser, Boris T. Gänsicke, Siegfried Eggl, Mark Hollands, Paula Izquierdo, Detlev Koester, John D. Landstreet, Wladimir Lyra, Thomas R. Marsh, Farzana Meru, Alexander J. Mustill, Pablo Rodríguez-Gil, Odette Toloza, Dimitri Veras, David J. Wilson, Matthew R. Burleigh, Melvyn B. Davies, Jay Farihi, Nicola Gentile Fusillo, Domitilla de MartinoSteven G. Parsons, Andreas Quirrenbach, Roberto Raddi, Sabine Reffert, Melania Del Santo, Matthias R. Schreiber, Roberto Silvotti, Silvia Toonen, Eva Villaver, Mark Wyatt, Siyi Xu, Simon Portegies Zwart

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Many white dwarf stars show signs of having accreted smaller bodies, implying that they may host planetary systems. A small number of these systems contain gaseous debris discs, visible through emission lines. We report a stable 123.4-minute periodic variation in the strength and shape of the Ca II emission line profiles originating from the debris disc around the white dwarf SDSS J122859.93+104032.9. We interpret this short-period signal as the signature of a solid-body planetesimal held together by its internal strength.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	66-69
Number of pages	4
Journal	Science
Volume	364
Issue number	6435
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat5330
Publication status	Published - 2019 Apr 5

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Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

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Planetary Sciences
Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

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https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02163

A unified picture of white dwarf planetary systems
Mustill, A. (PI)
Swedish Research Council
2018/01/01 → 2022/12/31
Project: Research
IMPACT: IMPACT: Comets, asteroids and the habitability of planets
Davies, M. B. (PI), Johansen, A. (CoI) & Birger, S. (CoI)
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
2015/07/01 → 2020/06/30
Project: Research

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Manser, C. J., Gänsicke, B. T., Eggl, S., Hollands, M., Izquierdo, P., Koester, D., Landstreet, J. D., Lyra, W., Marsh, T. R., Meru, F., Mustill, A. J., Rodríguez-Gil, P., Toloza, O., Veras, D., Wilson, D. J., Burleigh, M. R., Davies, M. B., Farihi, J., Fusillo, N. G., ... Zwart, S. P. (2019). A planetesimal orbiting within the debris disc around a white dwarf star. Science, 364(6435), 66-69. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat5330

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A planetesimal orbiting within the debris disc around a white dwarf star

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