A circumbinary debris disk in a polluted white dwarf system

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作者
Farihi, J. [1 ]
Parsons, S. G. [2 ,3 ]
Gansicke, B. T. [4 ]
机构
[1] UCL, Dept Phys & Astron, London WC1E 6BT, England
[2] Univ Valparaiso, Dept Fis & Astron, Valparaiso 2360102, Chile
[3] Univ Sheffield, Dept Phys & Astron, Sheffield S3 7RH, S Yorkshire, England
[4] Univ Warwick, Dept Phys, Coventry CV4 7AL, W Midlands, England
基金
欧洲研究理事会; 英国科学技术设施理事会;
关键词
PLANETARY DEBRIS; BROWN DWARFS; BINARY STARS; MINOR PLANET; MASS; PHOTOMETRY; SPECTROGRAPH; ACCRETION; EVOLUTION; TATOOINE;
D O I
10.1038/s41550-016-0032
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Planetary systems commonly survive the evolution of single stars, as evidenced by terrestrial-like planetesimal debris observed orbiting and polluting the surfaces of white dwarfs(1,2). Here, we report the identification of a circumbinary dust disk surrounding a white dwarf with a substellar companion in a 2.27 h orbit. The system bears the dual hallmarks of atmospheric metal pollution and infrared excess(3,4); however, the standard (flat and opaque) disk configuration is dynamically precluded by the binary. Instead, the detected reservoir of debris must lie well beyond the Roche limit in an optically thin configuration, where erosion by stellar irradiation is relatively rapid. This finding shows that rocky planetesimal formation is robust around close binaries, even those with low mass ratios.
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