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The recent ALMA observations of the disc surrounding HL Tau reveal a very complex dust spatial distribution. We present a radiative transfer model accounting for the observed gaps and bright rings as well as radial changes of the emissivity…

Results from a concerted Hubble Space Telescope (HST) survey of nearby white dwarfs for substellar objects is presented. A total of 7 DAZ white dwarfs with distances of $<$ 50 pc had high contrast and high spatial resolution NICMOS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. H. Debes , S. Sigurdsson , B. Woodgate

HR 4796A is surrounded by a well-structured and very bright circumstellar disc shaped like an annulus with many interesting features: very sharp inner and outer edges, brightness asymmetries, centre offset, and suspected distortions in the…

The hydrogen envelope is the outermost layer of a DA white dwarf; it makes up the entirety of the stellar photosphere, and yet its typical extent is difficult to model theoretically and remains poorly observationally constrained. As a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Stefan M. Arseneau , J. J. Hermes , Maria E. Camisassa , Roberto Raddi , Evan B. Bauer

We increase the spectroscopic completeness of the 100 pc white dwarf sample in the SDSS footprint with 840 additional spectra. Our spectroscopy is 86% complete for white dwarfs hotter than $T_{\rm eff}= 5000$ K, where H$\alpha$ remains…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-09 Mukremin Kilic , Pierre Bergeron , Simon Blouin , Adam Moss , Warren R. Brown , Antoine Bedard , Gracyn Jewett , Marcel A. Agueros

We present ALMA continuum and spectral line data at 0.89 mm and 3.2 mm for three disks surrounding young brown dwarfs and very low mass stars in the Taurus star forming region. Dust thermal emission is detected and spatially resolved for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 L. Ricci , L. Testi , A. Natta , A. Scholz , I. de Gregorio-Monsalvo , A. Isella

White dwarfs (WDs) can be used as laboratories to test strong gravity and high-density regimes, once their equation of state is not so uncertain as the one of neutron stars. This makes them also a useful tool to constrain dark-matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-16 G. A. Carvalho , J. D. V. Arbañil , J. G. Coelho

We have discovered a detached pair of white dwarfs (WDs) with a 12.75 min orbital period and a 1,315 km/s radial velocity amplitude. We measure the full orbital parameters of the system using its light curve, which shows ellipsoidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Warren R. Brown , Mukremin Kilic , J. J. Hermes , Carlos Allende Prieto , Scott J. Kenyon , D. E. Winget

We present a spectroscopic survey of 230 white dwarf candidates within 40 pc of the Sun from the William Herschel Telescope and Gran Telescopio Canarias. All candidates were selected from $\textit{Gaia}$ Data Release 2 (DR2) and in almost…

We present the first trigonometric parallax and distance for a young planetary mass object. A likely TW Hya cluster member, 2MASSW J1207334-393254Ab (hereafter 2M1207Ab) is an M8 brown dwarf with a mid to late L type planetary mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Beth Biller , Laird Close

We present new observations of the white dwarf G 29-38 with the camera (4.5 and 8 microns), photometer (24 microns), and spectrograph (5.5-14 microns) of the Spitzer Space Telescope. This star has an exceptionally large infrared excess…

With the launch of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), a new era of detecting planetary debris around white dwarfs has begun with the WISE InfraRed Excesses around Degenerates (WIRED) Survey. The WIRED Survey will be sensitive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. H. Debes , D. W. Hoard , M. Kilic , S. Wachter , D. T. Leisawitz , M. Cohen , J. D. Kirkpatrick , R. L. Griffith

Core-collapsed globular clusters are ideal targets to explore the presence of stellar collision products. Here, we have studied seventeen FUV bright white dwarf members in the globular cluster NGC 362 using data obtained from the Ultra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-22 R. K. S. Yadav , Arvind K. Dattatrey , Annapurni Subramaniam , Geeta Rangwal , Ravi S. Singh

We present the results of our analysis of Gaia19dke, an extraordinary microlensing event in the Cygnus constellation that was first spotted by the {\gaia} satellite. This event featured a strong microlensing parallax effect, which resulted…

We report the complete photometric results from our Herschel study which is the first comprehensive program to search for far-infrared emission from cold dust around young brown dwarfs. We surveyed 50 fields containing 51 known or suspected…

We present a homogeneous analysis of 1023 DBZ/DZ(A) and 319 DQ white dwarf stars taken from the Montreal White Dwarf Database. This represents a significant increase over the previous comprehensive studies on these types of objects. We use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 S. Coutu , P. Dufour , P. Bergeron , S. Blouin , E. Loranger , N. F. Allard , B. H Dunlap

We report the discovery of two directly imaged, giant planet candidates orbiting the metal-rich DAZ white dwarfs WD 1202-232 and WD 2105-82. JWST's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) data on these two stars show a nearby resolved source at a…

Spitzer Space Observatory IRAC and MIPS photometric observations are presented for 20 white dwarfs with T < 20,000 K and metal-contaminated photospheres. A warm circumstellar disk is detected at GD 16 and likely at PG 1457-086, while the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. Farihi , M. Jura , B. Zuckerman

A photometric and spectroscopic analysis of 152 cool white dwarf stars is presented. The discovery of 7 new DA white dwarfs, 2 new DQ white dwarfs, 1 new magnetic white dwarf, and 3 weak magnetic white dwarf candidates, is reported, as well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Bergeron , S. K. Leggett , Maria Teresa Ruiz

This is to notify colleagues that our ApJ paper and corresponding astro-ph version are being withdrawn. Optical spectroscopy obtained with a 3m class telescope gave no indication of any features in the spectrum of 'GD248B' whatsoever. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Farihi , E. E. Becklin , B. Zuckerman