• DOI:10.1126/science.1135033
Corpus ID: 8066922

A Gaseous Metal Disk Around a White Dwarf

@article{Gaensicke2006AGM,
  title={A Gaseous Metal Disk Around a White Dwarf},
  author={B. Gaensicke and T. Marsh and J. Southworth and A. Rebassa-Mansergas},
  journal={Science},
  year={2006},
  volume={314},
  pages={1908 - 1910}
}

B. Gaensicke, T. Marsh, +1 author A. Rebassa-Mansergas

Published 2006

Physics, Medicine

Science

The destiny of planetary systems through the late evolution of their host stars is very uncertain. We report a metal-rich gas disk around a moderately hot and young white dwarf. A dynamical model of the double-peaked emission lines constrains the outer disk radius to just 1.2 solar radii. The likely origin of the disk is a tidally disrupted asteroid, which has been destabilized from its initial orbit at a distance of more than 1000 solar radii by the interaction with a relatively massive… CONTINUE READING

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