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20172026
most citedA 3pi Search for Planet Nine at 3.4 microns with WISE and NEOWISE

14 citations · 22 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Detection of knots in the supernova type Iax remnant Pa 30

Tim Cunningham, Ilaria Caiazzo, John C. Raymond +1

We present deep, narrowband Gemini North/GMOS images of the Pa 30 nebula that reveal rich small-scale structure in the ejecta filaments. In [S II], the number of detected filaments…

astro-ph.EP2026

Activity in White Dwarf Debris Disks II: WISE Mission Traces a Decade of Disk Evolution and Persistence

Hiba Tu Noor, Jay Farihi, Scott J. Kenyon

This study presents multi-epoch photometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer to investigate variability in white dwarf debris disks, utilizing the full 14.5 yr mission d…

astro-ph.EP2026

An astrometric search for planets in debris disk systems

Elisabeth M. Penderghast, Benjamin C. Bromley, Scott J. Kenyon +1

Debris disks are likely created and sculpted by planetary bodies in the orbital space they share. The properties of these disks, including mass, orbital extent, and morphology, can…

astro-ph.SR2026

The Cold Debris Disk Surveys I. Host Star Properties

Scott J. Kenyon, Benjamin C. Bromley, Joan R. Najita

We describe the dynamical, photometric, and spectroscopic data available for stars targeted by Spitzer and Herschel to search for cold circumstellar dust emission from debris disks…

astro-ph.SR2026

The MIRI Excess around Degenerates (MEAD) Survey II: A Probable Planet detected via IR Excess around WD 0644+025

Sabrina Poulsen, John Debes, Ashley Messier +14

The MIRI Excess Around Degenerates (MEAD) Survey is a cycle 2 JWST program designed to image nearby white dwarfs with MIRI at 10 and 15 microns. This survey targeted 56 white dwarf…

astro-ph.SR2025

The MIRI Excesses around Degenerates (MEAD) Survey I: A candidate cold brown dwarf in orbit around the nearby white dwarf 2MASS J09424023-4637176

Loïc Albert, Sabrina R. Poulsen, Érika Le Bourdais +17

The MIRI Excesses Around Degenerates Survey is a Cycle 2 James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Survey program designed to image nearby white dwarfs in the mid-IR with the MIRI imaging…

astro-ph.EP2025

Activity in White Dwarf Debris Disks I: Spitzer Legacy Reveals Variability Incompatible with the Canonical Model

Hiba Tu Noor, Jay Farihi, Scott J. Kenyon +11

This study presents all available, multi-epoch 3.6 and 4.5 m photometry from Spitzer Space Telescope observations of white dwarf debris disks, including weekly cadence observati…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 4 cited

A half-ring of ionized circumstellar material trapped in the magnetosphere of a white dwarf merger remnant

Andrei A. Cristea, Ilaria Caiazzo, Tim Cunningham +31

Many white dwarfs are observed in compact double white dwarf binaries and, through the emission of gravitational waves, a large fraction are destined to merge. The merger remnants…

astro-ph.SR2025

Discovery of two new polars evolved past the period bounce

Tim Cunningham, Ilaria Caiazzo, Gracjan Sienkiewicz +13

We report the discovery of two new magnetic cataclysmic variables with brown dwarf companions and long orbital periods ( and min). This discovery incr…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

Microlensing Constraints on the Stellar and Planetary Mass Functions

Jennifer C. Yee, Scott J. Kenyon

The mass function (MF) of isolated objects measured by microlensing consists of both a stellar and a planetary component. We compare the microlensing MFs of Gould et al (2022) and…

astro-ph.SR2025

The dearth of high-mass hydrogen-atmosphere metal-polluted white dwarfs within 40 pc

Tim Cunningham, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Mairi O'Brien +7

We present a population synthesis model which addresses the different mass distributions of the metal-polluted and non-metal-polluted hydrogen-atmosphere white dwarfs identified in…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

Subtle and Spectacular: Diverse White Dwarf Debris Disks Revealed by JWST

J. Farihi, K. Y. L. Su, C. Melis +5

This letter reports 12 novel spectroscopic detections of warm circumstellar dust orbiting polluted white dwarfs using JWST MIRI. The disks span two orders of magnitude in fractiona…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 14 cited

A 3pi Search for Planet Nine at 3.4 microns with WISE and NEOWISE

A. M. Meisner, B. C. Bromley, S. J. Kenyon +1

The recent 'Planet Nine' hypothesis has led to many observational and archival searches for this giant planet proposed to orbit the Sun at hundreds of astronomical units. While tra…