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  2. WD 1145+017 - Wikipedia

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    The supposed planetesimal, WD 1145+017 b, [13] with a 4.5 hour orbit, is being ripped apart by the star and is a remnant of the former planetary system that the star hosted before becoming a white dwarf. [8] [9] It is the first observation of a planetary object being shredded by a white dwarf. Several other large pieces have been seen in orbit ...

  3. White dwarf - Wikipedia

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    White dwarfs with hydrogen-poor atmospheres, such as WD J2147–4035, are less affected by CIA and therefore have a yellow to orange color. [80] [77] The white dwarf cooling sequence seen by ESA's Gaia mission. White dwarf core material is a completely ionized plasma – a mixture of nuclei and electrons – that is

  4. WD 0137−349 - Wikipedia

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    The primary is a typical hydrogen white dwarf, as indicated by its spectral type of DA. It has about 39% of the Sun's mass and is only 1.86% as wide (12,900 km). [6] With a high effective temperature of 16,500 K, it emits radiation mostly in the ultraviolet range. [8] The brown dwarf, designated WD 0137-349B, can be detected from an infrared ...

  5. Radiation exposure - Wikipedia

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    The embryo and fetus are considered highly sensitive to radiation exposure. [8] Complications from radiation exposure include malformation of internal organs, reduction of IQ, and cancer formation. [8] The SI unit of exposure is the coulomb per kilogram (C/kg), which has largely replaced the roentgen (R). [9]

  6. List of exoplanets and planetary debris around white dwarfs

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    About 6% of white dwarfs show infrared excess due to a disk around a white dwarf. [66] In the past only a relative small sample of white dwarf disks was known. [67] Due to advances in white dwarf detection (e.g. with Gaia or LAMOST) and improvement of WISE infrared catalogs with unWISE/CatWISE, the number has increased to hundreds of candidates.

  7. Stellar collision - Wikipedia

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    White dwarfs are the remnants of low-mass stars which, if they form a binary system with another star, can cause large stellar explosions known as type Ia supernovae. The normal route by which this happens involves a white dwarf drawing material off a main sequence or red giant star to form an accretion disc.

  8. Binary pulsar - Wikipedia

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    An intermediate-mass binary pulsar (IMBP) is a pulsar-white dwarf binary system with a relatively long spin period of around 10–200 ms consisting of a white dwarf with a relatively high mass of approximately . [7] The spin periods, magnetic field strengths, and orbital eccentricities of IMBPs are significantly larger than those of low mass binary pulsars (LMBPs). [7]

  9. Methods of detecting exoplanets - Wikipedia

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    This image shows the relative sizes of brown dwarfs and large planets. Finally, there are two types of stars that are approximately the same size as gas giant planets, white dwarfs and brown dwarfs. This is due to the fact that gas giant planets, white dwarfs, and brown dwarfs, are all supported by degenerate electron pressure.