I Can Do It With A Broken Planetesimal: Characterising the planetary debris in heavily polluted cool white dwarfs

arXiv:2607.12070 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-07-13 · Read on arXiv

Anna-Maria Cutolo, Boris T. Gänsicke, Andrew Swan, Andrew M. Buchan, Jamie T. Williams, Detlev Koester, Paula Izquierdo, Mark A. Hollands, James A. Blake, Nicola P. Gentile Fusillo

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-07-13

Comments: 21 pages, 15 figures, accepted by MNRAS

Journal ref: Mon Not R Astron Soc (2026)

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag1349

Code: https://github.com/mahollands/magnetic

Project page: https://keatonb.github.io/archivers/uniforminclination

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Abundance — 93× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 50× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metallicity — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Bayesian Framework — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Markov Chain Monte Carlo — 1× in this paper

Sources

• The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys
• Solar Elemental Abundances

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