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A while back a new arxiv paper was published.
"Transit surveys for Earths in the habitable zones of white dwarfs"
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1103/1103.2791v2.pdf
I finally got around to fully reading it, but I'll probably have to reread it to make it stick in my memory.
What would the properties of such a planet be? It would be tidally locked and have an H/He atmosphere, what else?
A cool thing is that the planet can be larger in radius than the parent white dwarf. A planet bigger than its sun.
The most appealing factor is that these would be easier to detect than around main sequence stars.
Have we currently detected any planets of white dwarfs?
"Transit surveys for Earths in the habitable zones of white dwarfs"
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1103/1103.2791v2.pdf
I finally got around to fully reading it, but I'll probably have to reread it to make it stick in my memory.
What would the properties of such a planet be? It would be tidally locked and have an H/He atmosphere, what else?
A cool thing is that the planet can be larger in radius than the parent white dwarf. A planet bigger than its sun.
The most appealing factor is that these would be easier to detect than around main sequence stars.
Have we currently detected any planets of white dwarfs?