Once in a blue moon: detection of ‘bluing' during debris transits in the white dwarf WD 1145+017

Abstract The first transiting planetesimal orbiting a white dwarf was recently detected in K2 data of WD 1145+017 and has been followed up intensively. The multiple, long and variable transits suggest the transiting objects are dust clouds, probably produced by a disintegrating asteroid. In addition...

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Veröffentlicht in:Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2017-08, Vol.469 (3), p.3213-3224
Hauptverfasser: Hallakoun, N., Xu (许偲艺), S., Maoz, D., Marsh, T. R., Ivanov, V. D., Dhillon, V. S., Bours, M. C. P., Parsons, S. G., Kerry, P., Sharma, S., Su,  K., Rengaswamy, S., Pravec, P., Kušnirák, P., Kučáková, H., Armstrong, J. D., Arnold, C., Gerard, N., Vanzi, L.
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