At least one in a dozen stars shows evidence of planetary ingestion

1,2,3Fan Liu,3,4,5,6,7,8Yuan-Sen Ting,3,4David Yong,9,10Bertram Bitsch,1,3Amanda Karakas,2Michael T. Murphy,11,12Meridith Joyce,13Aaron Dotter,14,15Fei Dai
Nature 627, 501-504 Link to Article [DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07091-y]
1School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
2Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
3ARC Centre for All Sky Astrophysics in 3D (ASTRO-3D), Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
4Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Weston, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
5School of Computing, Australian National University, Acton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
6Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
7Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
8Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Pasadena, CA, USA
9Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany
10Department of Physics, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
11HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary
12CSFK, MTA Centre of Excellence, Budapest, Hungary
13Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
14Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
15Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

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