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    • A Disintegrating Minor Planet Transiting a White Dwarf 

      Vanderburg, Andrew Michael; Johnson, John Asher; Rappaport, Saul; Bieryla, Allyson; Irwin, Jonathan; Lewis, John Arban; Kipping, David; Brown, Warren R.; Dufour, Patrick; Ciardi, David R.; Angus, Ruth; Schaefer, Laura Kay; Latham, David Winslow; Charbonneau, David; Beichman, Charles; Eastman, Jason D.; McCrady, Nate; Wittenmyer, Robert A.; Wright, Jason T. (Springer Nature, 2015)
      White dwarfs are the end state of most stars, including the Sun, after they exhaust their nuclear fuel. Between 1/4 and 1/2 of white dwarfs have elements heavier than helium in their atmospheres1,2, even though these ...