Recycling planets around white dwarfs

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What happens to tidally-destroyed planets around white dwarf stars? It seems it might be possible for the debris disc to re-accrete into new planets close to the star, which might be a pathway for getting terrestrial planets into the habitable zone. Maybe.

van Lieshout et al. "Exoplanet recycling in massive white-dwarf debris discs"
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04429

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