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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 (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

With the launch of the {\em Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer} ({\em WISE}), a new era of detecting planetary debris and brown dwarfs around white dwarfs (WDs) has begun with the {\em WISE} InfraRed Excesses around Degenerates (WIRED)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. H. Debes , D. W. Hoard , S. Wachter , D. T. Leisawitz , M. Cohen

We have compiled photometric data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer All Sky Survey and other archival sources for the more than 2200 objects in the original McCook & Sion Catalog of Spectroscopically Identified White Dwarfs. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 D. W. Hoard , John H. Debes , Stefanie Wachter , David T. Leisawitz , Martin Cohen

The presence of infrared excess flux observed in white dwarfs (WDs) is related to the existence of debris disks or substellar companions. These systems provide important clues in the study of extrasolar planetary material and binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 R. Murillo-Ojeda , F. M. Jiménez-Esteban , A. Rebassa-Mansergas , S. Torres

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…

A recent cross-correlation between the SDSS DR7 White Dwarf Catalog with the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer ($WISE$) all-sky photometry at 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 microns performed by Debes et al. (2011) resulted in the discovery of 52…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Sara D. Barber , Mukremin Kilic , Warren R. Brown , A. Gianninas

We present the data release (DR) 5 catalogue of white dwarf-main sequence (WDMS) binaries from the Large Area Multi-Object fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST). The catalogue contains 876 WDMS binaries, of which 757 are additions to our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 J. -J. Ren , A. Rebassa-Mansergas , S. G. Parsons , X. -W. Liu , A. -L. Luo , X. Kong , H. -T. Zhang

White dwarfs with infrared excess emission provide a window into the late stages of stellar evolution and the dynamics of circumstellar environments. Using data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX), we…

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

Using the SDSS DR7 spectroscopic catalog, we searched the WISE AllWISE catalog to investigate the occurrence of warm dust, as inferred from IR excesses, around field M dwarfs (dMs). We developed SDSS/WISE color selection criteria to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-14 Christopher A. Theissen , Andrew A. West

We present the results of a search of infrared excess candidates in a comprehensive (29\,000 stars) magnitude limited sample of dwarf stars, spanning the spectral range F2-K0, and brighter than V$=$15 mag. We searched the sample within the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Fernando Cruz-Saenz de Miera , Miguel Chavez , Emanuele Bertone , Olga Vega

We have carried out $JHK_s$ imaging of 12 white dwarf debris disk candidates from the WIRED SDSS DR7 catalog, aiming to confirm or rule out disks among these sources. On the basis of positional identification and the flux density spectra,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Zhongxiang Wang , Anestis Tziamtzis , Xuebing Wang

Studies of excess infrared radiation around white dwarfs provide important constraints on the evolution of planetary systems and low-mass stars beyond the main sequence stage. In this paper series, we focus on identifying and characterizing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-09 Siyi Xu , Samuel Lai , Erik Dennihy

We present a near-infrared photometric search for unresolved substellar companions and debris disks around white dwarfs in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey Large Area Survey. We cross-correlate the SDSS DR4 and McCook & Sion catalogues of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 P. R. Steele , M. R. Burleigh , P. D. Dobbie , R. F. Jameson , M. A. Barstow , R. P. Satterthwaite

We present the result of the cross-matching between UV-excess sources selected from the UV-excess survey of the Northern Galactic Plane (UVEX) and several infrared surveys (2MASS, UKIDSS and WISE). From the position in the (J-H) vs. (H-K)…

This paper reports follow-up photometric and spectroscopic observations, including warm Spitzer IRAC photometry of seven white dwarfs from the SDSS with apparent excess flux in UKIDSS K-band observations. Six of the science targets were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-06 J. Farihi , B. T. Gänsicke , P. R. Steele , J. Girven , M. R. Burleigh , E. Breedt , D. Koester

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

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

We present a simple method for identifying candidate white dwarf systems with dusty exoplanetary debris based on a single temperature blackbody model fit to the infrared excess. We apply this technique to a sample of Southern Hemisphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 E. Dennihy , J. C. Clemens , John H. Debes , B. H. Dunlap , D. Kilkenny , P. C. O'Brien , J. T. Fuchs
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