White dwarf planetary systems in the ultraviolet

arXiv:2605.26152 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-05-23 · Read on arXiv

Jamie Williams, Amy Bonsor, Boris Gänsicke, Joseph Guidry, JJ Hermes, Lou Baya Ould Rouis, Laura Rogers, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Snehalata Sahu, Andrew Swan, David Wilson, Siyi Xu

astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-05-23

Comments: White paper for "Building a Roadmap for Hubble Science into the 2030s". 6 pages, 2 figures

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

Terminology

• Abundance — 19× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Exogeological inferences from white dwarf pollutants: the impact of stellar physics
• Accretion Rate Changes Detected in a Polluted White Dwarf
• High Velocity Circumstellar Gas Orbiting a White Dwarf Star

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