Simultaneous emission from dust and gas in the planetary debris orbiting a white dwarf
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| author | Rogers, Laura K. Manser, Christopher J. Bonsor, Amy Dennihy, Erik Hodgkin, Simon Kissler-Patig, Markus Lai, Samuel Melis, Carl Xu, Siyi Fusillo, Nicola Gentile Gänsicke, Boris Swan, Andrew Toloza, Odette Veras, Dimitri |
| author_facet | Rogers, Laura K. Manser, Christopher J. Bonsor, Amy Dennihy, Erik Hodgkin, Simon Kissler-Patig, Markus Lai, Samuel Melis, Carl Xu, Siyi Fusillo, Nicola Gentile Gänsicke, Boris Swan, Andrew Toloza, Odette Veras, Dimitri |
| contents | There is increasing evidence for the presence and variability of circumstellar dust and gas around white dwarfs that are polluted with exoplanetary material, although the origin of this dust and gas remains debated. This paper presents the first near-simultaneous observations of both circumstellar dust (via broadband emission) and gas (via emission lines) around a polluted white dwarf. From the optical spectra the gaseous emission lines, notably the calcium infrared triplet and magnesium lines, show significant increases and decreases in their strength over timescales of weeks, while the oxygen and iron lines remain relatively stable. Near-infrared JHKs photometry reveals dust emission changes of up to 0.2 magnitudes in the Ks band over similar timescales, marking the shortest variability timescales observed to date. The two epochs with the strongest emission were correlated between the dust (Ks band brightening) and gas (strengthened calcium and magnesium lines), showing for the first time that the dust and gas must be produced near-simultaneously with a common origin, likely in collisions. |
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| spellingShingle | Simultaneous emission from dust and gas in the planetary debris orbiting a white dwarf Rogers, Laura K. Manser, Christopher J. Bonsor, Amy Dennihy, Erik Hodgkin, Simon Kissler-Patig, Markus Lai, Samuel Melis, Carl Xu, Siyi Fusillo, Nicola Gentile Gänsicke, Boris Swan, Andrew Toloza, Odette Veras, Dimitri Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics There is increasing evidence for the presence and variability of circumstellar dust and gas around white dwarfs that are polluted with exoplanetary material, although the origin of this dust and gas remains debated. This paper presents the first near-simultaneous observations of both circumstellar dust (via broadband emission) and gas (via emission lines) around a polluted white dwarf. From the optical spectra the gaseous emission lines, notably the calcium infrared triplet and magnesium lines, show significant increases and decreases in their strength over timescales of weeks, while the oxygen and iron lines remain relatively stable. Near-infrared JHKs photometry reveals dust emission changes of up to 0.2 magnitudes in the Ks band over similar timescales, marking the shortest variability timescales observed to date. The two epochs with the strongest emission were correlated between the dust (Ks band brightening) and gas (strengthened calcium and magnesium lines), showing for the first time that the dust and gas must be produced near-simultaneously with a common origin, likely in collisions. |
| title | Simultaneous emission from dust and gas in the planetary debris orbiting a white dwarf |
| topic | Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07647 |