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A Disintegrating Rocky Planet with Prominent Comet-like Tails around a Bright Star

  • Authors: Marc Hon, Saul Rappaport, Avi Shporer, Andrew Vanderburg, Karen A. Collins, Cristilyn N. Watkins, Richard P. Schwarz, Khalid Barkaoui, Samuel W. Yee, Joshua N. Winn, Alex S. Polanski, Emily A. Gilbert, David R. Ciardi, Jeroen Audenaert, William Fong, Jack Haviland, Katharine Hesse, Daniel Muthukrishna, Glen Petitpas, Ellie Hadjiyska Schmelzer, Norio Narita, Akihiko Fukui, Sara Seager, George R. Ricker

Marc Hon et al 2025 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 984 .

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Caption: Figure 6.

Spectral energy distribution (SED) of BD+05 4868 AB. The crosses show the observed broadband photometry, with horizontal widths indicating the filter bandwidths. The circles represent the model fluxes in the corresponding bands. Colors denote whether the observation corresponds to the primary star (green), secondary star (yellow), or the blended pair (blue). The bottom panel shows the deviations between the data and the model divided by the photometric uncertainties. For illustrative purposes, we also show the R. L. Kurucz (1993) model atmospheres for the best-fitting stellar models. These models were not used directly in the fit, although they were used to generate the MIST bolometric correction tables.

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