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Size Limits on Tidal Debris around White Dwarfs: The Kilometer-size Barrier

  • Authors: Jordan K. Steckloff, Dimitri Veras, Kathryn Volk

Jordan K. Steckloff et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1004 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Model of tidally elongated asteroid. We model an inwardly scattered planetesimal as a rectangular prism comprising two cubes, which simplifies the problem while providing a conservative estimate of the minimum characteristic stable size.

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