EVOLVED PLANETARY SYSTEMS AROUND WHITE DWARFS: PROBING INTO THE ULTIMATE FATE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
The last evolutionary stage of about 97 per cent of the stars in the Milky Way is the white dwarf phase: a remnant stellar core sustained by electron degeneracy pressure with a typical mass of 0.6 solar masses and a radius such as the Earth's. The study of white dwarfs is not only genuinely interesting due to them being the remnants of the majority
Paula Izquierdo Sánchez
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2022