A Dusty Disk around GD 362, a White Dwarf with a Uniquely High Photospheric Metal Abundance
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- 5 October 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 632 (2) , L119-L122
- https://doi.org/10.1086/497826
Abstract
Eighteen years after an infrared excess was discovered associated with the white dwarf G29-38, we report ground-based measurements (JHKsKL'N') with millijansky-level sensitivity of GD 362 that show it to be a second single white dwarf with an infrared excess. As a first approximation, the excess around GD 362, which amounts to ~3% of the total stellar luminosity, can be explained by emission from a passive, flat, opaque dust disk that lies within the Roche radius of the white dwarf. The dust may have been produced by the tidal disruption of a large parent body such as an asteroid. Accretion from this circumstellar disk could account for the remarkably high abundance of metals in the star's photosphere.Keywords
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