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2017MNRAS.464.2557P - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 464, 2557-2564 (2017/January-3)

The fate of exomoons in white dwarf planetary systems.

PAYNE M.J., VERAS D., GANSICKE B.T. and HOLMAN M.J.

Abstract (from CDS):

Roughly 1000 white dwarfs are known to be polluted with planetary material, and the progenitors of this material are typically assumed to be asteroids. The dynamical architectures which perturb asteroids into white dwarfs are still unknown, but may be crucially dependent on moons liberated from parent planets during post-main-sequence gravitational scattering. Here, we trace the fate of these exomoons, and show that they more easily achieve deep radial incursions towards the white dwarf than do scattered planets. Consequently, moons are likely to play a significant role in white dwarf pollution, and in some cases may be the progenitors of the pollution itself.

Abstract Copyright: © 2016 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): methods: numerical - celestial mechanics - planets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stability - planets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stability

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