A Chondritic Solar NeighborhoodOPEN ACCESS
Isabella L. Trierweiler, Alexandra E. Doyle and Edward D. Young The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 4, Number 8Published: 1 August 2023 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “A persistent question in exoplanet demographics is whether exoplanetary…
Polluted white dwarfs reveal exotic mantle rock types on exoplanets in our solar neighborhoodOPEN ACCESS
Keith D. Putirka & Siyi Xu Nature Communications, Volume 12, Article number: 6168 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Prior studies have hypothesized that some polluted white dwarfs record continent-like granitic crust—which is abundant on…
Host-star and exoplanet compositions: a pilot study using a wide binary with a polluted white dwarfOPEN ACCESS
Amy Bonsor, Paula Jofré, Oliver Shorttle, Laura K. Rogers, Siyi Xu, Carl Melis Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyPublished: 10 February 2021 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Planets and stars ultimately form out of the…
Alkali metals in white dwarf atmospheres as tracers of ancient planetary crustsOPEN ACCESS
Mark A. Hollands, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Boris T. Gänsicke, Detlev Koester & Nicola Pietro Gentile-Fusillo Nature Astronomy (2021)Published: 11 February 2021 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “White dwarfs that accrete the debris of tidally disrupted asteroids provide…
NRLEE Nucleosynthesis
Meyer B. S., Bermingham K. R., Frizzell K., Mezger K. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2021), Abstract #2598 PDF “NRLEEs are likely some sort of exploding white dwarf stars. They produce neutron-rich iron-group isotopes…
White Dwarf Collisions, a promising scenario to account for meteoritic anomaliesOPEN ACCESS
J. Isern, E. Bravo Accepted for publication in RNAAS 6 September, 2018 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “It is commonly accepted that collisions between white dwarfs (WD) are rare events that only occur in the dense interior…
Origin of the p-process radionuclides 92Nb and 146Sm in the early solar system and inferences on the birth of the Sun
Maria Lugaro, Marco Pignatari, Ulrich Ott, Kai Zuber, Claudia Travaglio, György Gyürky, and Zsolt Fülöp PNAS2016 ; published ahead of print January 11, 2016, doi:10.1073/pnas.1519344113 LINK “Significance Radioactive nuclei with half-lives of the order of…
