ERC Advanced Grant · 2020
Planetary systems around white dwarfs
In the 25 years since the discovery of 51 Peg b, we went from not knowing if the Solar system is a fluke of Nature to realising that it is totally normal for stars to have planets. The common fate of practically all planet hosts is that they will eventually evolve into white dwarfs, the Earth-sized embers that are the evolutionary end-points of most stars. Many of the known planets will survive the post main-sequence evolution of their host stars - in the solar system, this includes Mars, and all planetary bodies beyond it. Firm evidence for evolved planetary systems at white dwarfs is found in the form of photospheric contamination from the accretion of planetary material, transits caused…
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