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Perhaps I missed it, but I'm curious to how they know this is a planet which survived the red giant phase vs. a planet which was captured afterwards (or formed
by ziddoap 5y ago
Perhaps I missed it, but I'm curious to how they know this is a planet which survived the red giant phase vs. a planet which was captured afterwards (or formed from the debris caused from the star -> red giant -> white dwarf transition). Maybe it's covered more in actual paper.
- ceph_ 5y agoThey mention in the article that a handful of previously discovered planets orbiting white dwarfs are believed to have arrived after transition due to their orbits.