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Multiwavelength Transit Observations of the Candidate Disintegrating Planetesimals Orbiting WD 1145+017

  • Authors: Bryce Croll, Paul A. Dalba, Andrew Vanderburg, Jason Eastman, Saul Rappaport, John DeVore, Allyson Bieryla, Philip S. Muirhead, Eunkyu Han, David W. Latham, Thomas G. Beatty, Robert A. Wittenmyer, Jason T. Wright, John Asher Johnson, and Nate McCrady

2017 The Astrophysical Journal 836 82.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 8.

Plot of the Ångström exponent for spherical grains of a given radius for various materials, and for an index of refraction of n = 1.6 and for various imaginary components of the index of refraction, k. The horizontal dashed lines give the 1 and 2σ limits on the ratio of the transit depths, D, between our V- and R-band observations. Our limits on the Ångström exponent allow us to state that the radius of single sized grains in the dusty tails streaming behind these planetesimals must be ∼0.15 μm or larger, or ∼0.06 μm or smaller, with 2σ confidence.

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