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| author | Reach, William T. Kilic, Mukremin Lisse, Carey M. Debes, John H. von Hippel, Ted Azartash-Namin, Bianca Albert, Loic Mullally, Susan E. Mullally, Fergal Cracraft, Misty Bernice, Madison Erickson, Selin L. |
| author_facet | Reach, William T. Kilic, Mukremin Lisse, Carey M. Debes, John H. von Hippel, Ted Azartash-Namin, Bianca Albert, Loic Mullally, Susan E. Mullally, Fergal Cracraft, Misty Bernice, Madison Erickson, Selin L. |
| contents | White dwarf stars with high abundances of heavy elements in their atmospheres and infrared excesses are believed to be accreting planetary material. GD 362 is one of the most heavily polluted white dwarfs and has an exceptionally strong mid-infrared excess, reprocessing 2.4% of the star's light into the mid-infrared. We present a high signal-to-noise, medium-resolution spectrum of GD 362 obtained with JWST, covering 0.6 to 17 microns, along with photometry out to 25.5 microns. The mid-infrared spectrum is dominated by an exceptionally strong 9 to 11 micron silicate feature, which can be explained by a combination of olivine and pyroxene silicate minerals. Grains such as carbon, hotter than silicates, are required to explain the near-infrared emission. The silicates and carbon reside in a disk from 140 to 1400 stellar radii, and the disk scale height is greater than half the stellar radius. The elemental abundances of the solid material, relative to Si, are within a factor of 2 of meteoritic (CI chondrites) for C, O, Mg, Al, and Fe, with Al elevated and O slightly depleted. A similar pattern is observed for the abundances of accreted material in the stellar photosphere. Hydrogen is an exception, because no significant H-bearing minerals or water were detected in the disk, despite a large H abundance in the photosphere. |
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| spellingShingle | Composition of planetary debris around the white dwarf GD 362 Reach, William T. Kilic, Mukremin Lisse, Carey M. Debes, John H. von Hippel, Ted Azartash-Namin, Bianca Albert, Loic Mullally, Susan E. Mullally, Fergal Cracraft, Misty Bernice, Madison Erickson, Selin L. Astrophysics of Galaxies Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics White dwarf stars with high abundances of heavy elements in their atmospheres and infrared excesses are believed to be accreting planetary material. GD 362 is one of the most heavily polluted white dwarfs and has an exceptionally strong mid-infrared excess, reprocessing 2.4% of the star's light into the mid-infrared. We present a high signal-to-noise, medium-resolution spectrum of GD 362 obtained with JWST, covering 0.6 to 17 microns, along with photometry out to 25.5 microns. The mid-infrared spectrum is dominated by an exceptionally strong 9 to 11 micron silicate feature, which can be explained by a combination of olivine and pyroxene silicate minerals. Grains such as carbon, hotter than silicates, are required to explain the near-infrared emission. The silicates and carbon reside in a disk from 140 to 1400 stellar radii, and the disk scale height is greater than half the stellar radius. The elemental abundances of the solid material, relative to Si, are within a factor of 2 of meteoritic (CI chondrites) for C, O, Mg, Al, and Fe, with Al elevated and O slightly depleted. A similar pattern is observed for the abundances of accreted material in the stellar photosphere. Hydrogen is an exception, because no significant H-bearing minerals or water were detected in the disk, despite a large H abundance in the photosphere. |
| title | Composition of planetary debris around the white dwarf GD 362 |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07595 |