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We examine 14 hot white dwarfs for signs of infrared excess using the Spitzer Space Telescope. Twelve of the objects are massive white dwarfs which have been suggested to be the result of binary mergers. The remaining two objects are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Brad M. S. Hansen , Shri Kulkarni , Sloane Wiktorowicz

We present results from a mini-survey of dust spectral features arising in galaxies at redshifts $0.5 < z < 1.2$ in our James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mid-infrared spectra of physically-unrelated background quasars. We analyze the JWST…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-27 Viacheslav V. Klimenko , Varsha P. Kulkarni , Monique C. Aller

As the sample of white dwarfs with signatures of planetary systems has grown, statistical studies have begun to suggest our picture of compact debris disk formation from disrupted planetary bodies is incomplete. Here we present the results…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-03 E. Dennihy , John H. Debes , J. C. Clemens

Observations of debris disks allow for the study of planetary systems, even where planets have not been detected. However, debris disks are often only characterized by unresolved infrared excesses that resemble featureless blackbodies, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Nicholas P. Ballering , George H. Rieke , Andras Gaspar

We have bandmerged candidate transiting planetary systems (from the Kepler satellite) and confirmed transiting planetary systems (from the literature) with the recent Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) preliminary release catalog.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-03 Álvaro Ribas , Bruno Merín , David R. Ardila , Hervé Bouy

Although photometric and spectroscopic surveys with the Spitzer Space Telescope increased remarkably the number of well studied debris disks around A-type and Sun-like stars, detailed analyzes of debris disks around F-type stars remained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Moór , I. Pascucci , Á. Kóspál , P. Ábrahám , T. Csengeri , L. L. Kiss , D. Apai , C. Grady , Th. Henning , Cs. Kiss , D. Bayliss , A. Juhász , J. Kovács , T. Szalai

We present the optical to mid-infrared SEDs of 11 debris disk candidates from $Spitzer$ SWIRE fields. All these candidates are selected from SWIRE 24$\mu$m sources matched with both the SDSS star catalog and the 2MASS point source catalog.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Hong Wu , Chao-Jian Wu , Chen Cao , Sebastian Wolf , Jing-Yao Hu

Previous analyses of mid-infrared water spectra from young protoplanetary disks observed with the Spitzer-IRS found an anti-correlation between water luminosity and the millimeter dust disk radius observed with ALMA. This trend was…

We report MIRI-JWST coronagraphic observations at 11.3 and 15.5 mic of the debris disk around the young star HD 106906. The observations were made to characterize the structure, temperature and mass of the disk through the thermal emission…

We model the mineralogy and distribution of dust around the white dwarf G29-39 using the infrared spectrum from 1-35 microns and combining a wide range of materials based on spectral studies of comets and debris disks. In order of their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 William T. Reach , Carey Lisse , Ted von Hippel , Fergal Mullally

We present mid-infrared photometry of 124 white dwarf stars with Spitzer Space Telescope. Objects were observed simultaneously at 4.5 and 8.0um with sensitivities better than 1 mJy. This data can be used to test models of white dwarf…

Debris disks are dusty, gas-poor disks around main sequence stars (Backman & Paresce 1993; Lagrange, Backman & Artymowicz 2000; Zuckerman 2001). Micron-sized dust grains are inferred to exist in these systems from measurements of their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christine H. Chen

We present near-infrared spectroscopic observations of 20 previously known DAZ white dwarfs obtained at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility. Two of these white dwarfs (G29-38 and GD362) are known to display significant K-band excesses due…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mukremin Kilic , Ted von Hippel , S. K. Leggett , D. E. Winget

Circumstellar debris disks are important because of their connection to planetary systems. An efficient way to identify these systems is through their infrared excess. Most studies so far concentrated on early-type or solar-type stars, but…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Henning Avenhaus , Hans Martin Schmid , Michael R. Meyer

Combining archival photometric observations from multiple large-area surveys spanning the past 17 years, we detect long-term variability in the light curves of ZTFJ032833.52-121945.27 (ZTFJ0328-1219), ZTFJ092311.41+423634.16 (ZTFJ0923+4236)…

Two thirds of the F star members of the 12 Myr old Beta Pictoris Moving Group (BPMG) show significant excess emission in the mid-infrared, several million years after the expected dispersal of the protoplanetary disc. Theoretical models of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Laura J. Churcher , Mark C. Wyatt , Rachel Smith

SDSS J080434.20+510349.2 is the WZ type binary that displayed rare outburst in 2006 (Pavlenko et al., 2007). During the long-lasting tail of the late stage of the outburst binary shown the two-humped or four-humped profile of the orbital…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Pavlenko Elena

We present the first JWST MIRI and NIRCam observations of the prominent debris disk around Beta Pictoris. Coronagraphic observations in 8 filters spanning from 1.8 to 23~$\mu$m provide an unprecedentedly clear view of the disk at these…

Some carbon-rich Wolf-Rayet stars (WC stars) show an infrared excess from dust emission. Dust forms in the collision of the WC wind with a companion star's wind. As this dust is carried towards the ISM at close to the WCd wind speed and the…

Mechanisms such as collisions of rocky bodies or cometary activity give rise to dusty debris disks. Debris disks trace the leftover building blocks of planets, and thus also planetary composition. HD 172555, a stellar twin of beta Pic,…