Planetary Accretion Is Less Frequent in Wide Binaries: Evidence from Metal-enriched White Dwarfs in DESI DR1
Binary stars are common in the Galaxy, and understanding how stellar binarity influences the formation and evolution of planetary systems is an active area of research. In this study, we use metal-enriched white dwarfs in wide binaries as tracers of long-lived planetary systems. With Data Release 1 from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
Xu, Siyi et al.
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