Activity in White Dwarf Debris Disks II: WISE Mission Traces a Decade of Disk Evolution and Persistence

arXiv:2609.34868 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Terminology

• Abundance — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Monte Carlo Analysis — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 1× in this paper

Sources

• A ZTF Search for Circumstellar Debris Transits in White Dwarfs: Six New Candidates, one with Gas Disk Emission, identified in a Novel Metric Space
• The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys
• SPHEREx: NASA's Near-Infrared Spectrophotmetric All-Sky Survey
• Subtle and Spectacular: Diverse White Dwarf Debris Disks Revealed by JWST
• Emission from elliptical streams of dusty debris around white dwarfs
• Activity in White Dwarf Debris Disks I: Spitzer Legacy Reveals Variability Incompatible with the Canonical Model

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