Iglesias, D. orcid.org/0000-0002-0756-9836, Rebollido, I., Norazman, A. et al. (8 more authors) (2025) An overview of exocomets. Space Science Reviews, 221 (8). 122. ISSN: 0038-6308
Abstract
We give a general overview of what the scientific community refers to as “exocomets”. The general definition of exocomets, as presented in this work, is discussed and compared with Solar System comets and interstellar objects, addressing their detection around main-sequence stars as well as orbiting white dwarfs. We introduce the different types of exocomet observations, highlighting the difference between exocometary ‘bodies’ and exocometary ‘material’. We provide a census of all exocometary system candidates detected so far, both via spectroscopy and photometry, including detections around white dwarfs.
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| Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Crown 2025. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Exocomets; Comets; Interstellar objects; Circumstellar material |
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| Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
| Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Sep 2026 15:25 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Sep 2026 15:25 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11214-025-01247-6 |
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| Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:245014 |
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