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1-3 per cent of white dwarfs are orbited by planetary dusty debris detectable as infrared emission in excess above the white dwarf flux. In a rare subset of these systems, a gaseous disc component is also detected via emission lines of the…

IR excesses of white dwarfs (WDs) can be used to diagnose the presence of low-mass companions, planets, and circumstellar dust. Using different combinations of wavelengths and WD temperatures, circumstellar dust at different radial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Y. -H. Chu , R. A. Gruendl , J. Bilíkovà , A. Riddle , K. Y. -L. Su

Infrared (IR) excess emission around white dwarfs (WDs) is commonly attributed to circumstellar debris disks and/or low-mass companions, providing a unique window into the evolution of planetary systems and binary evolution after the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Ke-Yi Wang , Qiong Liu

Excess infrared flux from white dwarf stars is likely to arise from a dusty debris disk or a cool companion. In this work, we present near-infrared spectroscopic observations with Keck/MOSFIRE, Gemini/GNIRS, and Gemini/Flamingos-2 of seven…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Dylan Owens , Siyi Xu , Elena Manjavacas , S. K. Leggett , S. L. Casewell , Erik Dennihy , Patrick Dufour , Beth L. Klein , Sherry Yeh , B. Zuckerman

IR excesses of white dwarfs (WDs) can be used to diagnose the presence of low-mass companions, planets, and circumstellar dust. Using different combinations of wavelengths and WD temperatures, circumstellar dust at different radial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Y. -H. Chu , R. A. Gruendl , J. Bilíkovà , A. Riddle , K. Y. -L. Su

This study presents all available, multi-epoch 3.6 and 4.5 $\mu$m photometry from Spitzer Space Telescope observations of white dwarf debris disks, including weekly cadence observations of 16 relatively bright systems, and 5 h staring-mode…

Observations of atmospheric metals and dust discs around white dwarfs provide important clues to the fate of terrestrial planetary systems around intermediate mass stars. We present Spitzer IRAC observations of 15 metal polluted white…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Carolina Bergfors , Jay Farihi , Patrick Dufour , Marco Rocchetto

We present Spitzer Space Telescope data of four isolated white dwarfs that were previously known to harbor circumstellar gaseous disks. IRAC photometry shows a significant infrared excess in all of the systems, SDSS0738+1835, SDSS0845+2257,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Carolyn Brinkworth , Boris Gaensicke , Jon Girven , Don Hoard , Tom Marsh , Stephen Parsons , Detlev Koester

Gaseous and dust debris disks around white dwarfs (WDs) are formed from tidally disrupted planetary bodies. This offers an opportunity to determine the composition of exoplanetary material by measuring element abundances in the accreting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 S. Hartmann , T. Nagel , T. Rauch , K. Werner

Optical spectroscopic observations of white dwarf stars selected from catalogs based on the Gaia DR2 database reveal nine new gaseous debris disks that orbit single white dwarf stars, about a factor of two increase over the previously known…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Carl Melis , B. Klein , A. E. Doyle , A. J. Weinberger , B. Zuckerman , P. Dufour

Infrared excesses around white dwarf stars indicate the presence of various astrophysical objects of interest, including companions and debris disks. In this second paper of a series, we present follow-up observations of infrared excess…

Infrared excess is an important probe of sub-stellar companions and/or debris disks around white dwarfs (WDs). Such systems are still rare for in-depth understanding of their formation and long-term evolution. One of the largest…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Lin Wang , Xiaoxia Zhang , Junfeng Wang , Zhi-Xiang Zhang , Taotao Fang , Wei-Min Gu , Jincheng Guo , Xiaochuan Jiang

Infrared excesses around metal polluted white dwarfs have been associated with the accretion of dusty, planetary material. This work analyses the available infrared data for an unbiased sample of white dwarfs and demonstrates that no more…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Amy Bonsor , Jay Farihi , Mark C. Wyatt , Rik van Lieshout

Detecting gaseous debris disks around white dwarfs offers a unique window into the ultimate fate of planetary systems and the composition of accreted planetary material. Here we present a systematic search for such disks through the Ca II…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Ziying Ma , Xiaoxia Zhang , Taotao Fang , Junfeng Wang , Jincheng Guo , Xiaochuan Jiang , Zhi-Xiang Zhang , Hu Zou

White dwarfs with emission lines from gaseous debris discs are among the rarest examples of planetary remnant hosts, but at the same time they are key objects for studying the final evolutionary stage of planetary systems. Making use of the…

We present ISAAC spectroscopy and ISAAC, UKIDSS and Spitzer Space Telescope broad-band photometry of SDSS J1228+1040 -- a white dwarf for which evidence of a gaseous metal-rich circumstellar disk has previously been found from optical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 C. S. Brinkworth , B. T. Gaensicke , T. R. Marsh , D. W. Hoard , C. Tappert

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

We present the discovery of strongly variable emission lines from a gaseous disc around the DA white dwarf SDSS J1617+1620, a star previously found to have an infrared excess indicative of a dusty debris disc formed by the tidal disruption…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 David J Wilson , Boris Gaensicke , Detlev Koester , Roberto Raddi , Elmé Breedt , John Southworth , Steven G. Parsons

Infrared (IR) excess observed around white dwarfs (WDs) is typically attributed to companions or debris disks. These systems are interesting because they offer a unique opportunity to study the late stages of stellar evolution and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Keyi Wang , Qiong Liu , Siyi Xu , Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas

White dwarfs whose atmospheres are polluted by terrestrial-like planetary debris have become a powerful and unique tool to study evolved planetary systems. This paper presents results for an unbiased Spitzer IRAC search for circumstellar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 M. Rocchetto , J. Farihi , B. T. Gaensicke , C. Bergfors
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