Evolved Planetary Systems around White Dwarfs

Bibcode
2019BAAS...51c.170G
Gaensicke, Boris; Barstow, Martin; Bonsor, Amy; Debes, John; Cunningham, Tim; Dennihy, Erik; Fusillo, Nicola Gentile; Farihi, Jay; Hollands, Mark; Izquierdo, Paula; Johnson, Jennifer; Hoskin, Matthew; Klein, Beth; Koester, Detlev; Kollmeier, Juna; Lyra, Wladimir; Manser, Christopher; Melis, Carl; Rodriguez-Gil, Pablo; Schreiber, Matthias; Swan, Andrew; Toloza, Odette; Tremblay, Pier-Emmanuel; Veras, Dimitri; Wilson, David; Xu, Siyi; Zuckerman, Ben
Bibliographical reference

Astro2020: Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, science white papers, no. 170; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 51, Issue 3, id. 170 (2019)

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2019
Number of authors
27
IAC number of authors
1
Citations
0
Refereed citations
0
Description
This white paper describes an ambitious research programme into the architectures of evolved planetary systems and their use as probes of the bulk abundances of exo-planetesimals, and we identify the facilities required over the next decade to reach our scientific goals.
Type
Non-refereed

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