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Rozner, Mor, Veras, Dimitri and Perets, Hagai B. (2021) Rapid destruction of planetary debris around white dwarfs through aeolian erosion. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502 (4). pp. 5176-5184. doi:10.1093/mnras/stab329
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab329
Abstract
The discovery of numerous debris disks around white dwarfs (WDs), gave rise to extensive study of such disks and their role in polluting WDs, but the formation and evolution of these disks is not yet well understood. Here we study the role of aeolian (wind) erosion in the evolution of solids in WD debris disks. Aeolian erosion is a destructive process that plays a key role in shaping the properties and size-distribution of planetesimals, boulders and pebbles in gaseous protoplanetary disks. Our analysis of aeolian erosion in WD debris disks shows it can also play an important role in these environments. We study the effects of aeolian erosion under different conditions of the disk, and its erosive effect on planetesimals and boulders of different sizes. We find that solid bodies smaller than ∼5km will be eroded within the short disk lifetime. We compare the role of aeolian erosion in respect to other destructive processes such as collisional fragmentation and thermal ablation. We find that aeolian erosion is the dominant destructive process for objects with radius ≲103cm and at distances ≲ 0.6 R⊙ from the WD. Thereby, aeolian erosion constitutes the main destructive pathway linking fragmentational collisions operating on large objects with sublimation of the smallest objects and Poynting-Robertson drag, which leads to the accretion of the smallest particles on to the photosphere of WDs, and the production of polluted WDs
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QE Geology |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | ||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | White dwarf stars , Space debris, Eolian processes , Wind erosion | ||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 1745-3933 | ||||||||||||
| Official Date: | April 2021 | ||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 502 | ||||||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 5176-5184 | ||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stab329 | ||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society following peer review. The version of record Mor Rozner, Dimitri Veras, Hagai B Perets, Rapid destruction of planetary debris around white dwarfs through aeolian erosion, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021;, stab329, is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab329 | ||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||||
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