The Future of Evolved Planetary Systems
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| author | Raddi, Roberto Pala, Anna F. Rebassa-Mansergas, Alberto Gänsicke, Boris T. Celedon, Lientur Cunningham, Tim Rincón, Camila Damia Burjachs, Aina Ferrer i García-Zamora, Enrique Fusillo, Nicola Pietro Gentile Meza, Joaquim Puebla, Evelyn Rodríguez-Gil, Pablo Sahu, Snehalata Santos-García, Alejandro Toloza, Odette Torres, Santiago Tremblay, Pier-Emmanuel van Roestel, Jan Uzundag, Murat Veras, Dimitri Williams, Jamie |
| author_facet | Raddi, Roberto Pala, Anna F. Rebassa-Mansergas, Alberto Gänsicke, Boris T. Celedon, Lientur Cunningham, Tim Rincón, Camila Damia Burjachs, Aina Ferrer i García-Zamora, Enrique Fusillo, Nicola Pietro Gentile Meza, Joaquim Puebla, Evelyn Rodríguez-Gil, Pablo Sahu, Snehalata Santos-García, Alejandro Toloza, Odette Torres, Santiago Tremblay, Pier-Emmanuel van Roestel, Jan Uzundag, Murat Veras, Dimitri Williams, Jamie |
| contents | Understanding the formation, evolution, and chemical diversity of exoplanets are now central areas of astrophysics research. White dwarfs provide a uniquely sensitive laboratory for studying the end stages of planetary-system evolution and for probing the bulk composition of both rocky and volatile-rich exoplanetary material. In the 2030s new facilities will transform our ability to carry out \textit{``industrial-scale''} astrophysics, leading to fundamental results and new challenges for the next decade. By combining the volume of data surveyed by the ESA {\em Gaia} mission and Vera C. Rubin Observatory with the next-generation of spectroscopic facilities, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) community will be in a position to obtain an unbiased census of evolved planetary systems, constrain the composition of thousands of disrupted planetesimals, and connect these signatures to Galactic populations and stellar birth environments. Thus, it is now the time for assessing those challenges and preparing for the future. This white paper outlines key science opportunities arising in the next decade and the technological requirements of future ESO facilities in enabling transformative discoveries in the 2040s. These future facilities will have to combine a number of features that are crucial for studying evolved planetary systems at white dwarfs, such as broad optical to near-infrared coverage, a high sensitivity at blue wavelengths, multi-resolution capability, massive multi-plexing, and time-domain reactivity. |
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| spellingShingle | The Future of Evolved Planetary Systems Raddi, Roberto Pala, Anna F. Rebassa-Mansergas, Alberto Gänsicke, Boris T. Celedon, Lientur Cunningham, Tim Rincón, Camila Damia Burjachs, Aina Ferrer i García-Zamora, Enrique Fusillo, Nicola Pietro Gentile Meza, Joaquim Puebla, Evelyn Rodríguez-Gil, Pablo Sahu, Snehalata Santos-García, Alejandro Toloza, Odette Torres, Santiago Tremblay, Pier-Emmanuel van Roestel, Jan Uzundag, Murat Veras, Dimitri Williams, Jamie Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Understanding the formation, evolution, and chemical diversity of exoplanets are now central areas of astrophysics research. White dwarfs provide a uniquely sensitive laboratory for studying the end stages of planetary-system evolution and for probing the bulk composition of both rocky and volatile-rich exoplanetary material. In the 2030s new facilities will transform our ability to carry out \textit{``industrial-scale''} astrophysics, leading to fundamental results and new challenges for the next decade. By combining the volume of data surveyed by the ESA {\em Gaia} mission and Vera C. Rubin Observatory with the next-generation of spectroscopic facilities, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) community will be in a position to obtain an unbiased census of evolved planetary systems, constrain the composition of thousands of disrupted planetesimals, and connect these signatures to Galactic populations and stellar birth environments. Thus, it is now the time for assessing those challenges and preparing for the future. This white paper outlines key science opportunities arising in the next decade and the technological requirements of future ESO facilities in enabling transformative discoveries in the 2040s. These future facilities will have to combine a number of features that are crucial for studying evolved planetary systems at white dwarfs, such as broad optical to near-infrared coverage, a high sensitivity at blue wavelengths, multi-resolution capability, massive multi-plexing, and time-domain reactivity. |
| title | The Future of Evolved Planetary Systems |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14774 |