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20242026
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12 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

From Hubble to HWO: Bridging the Frontier of White Dwarf Exoplanet Science

Laura K. Rogers, Siyi Xu, Martin Barstow +20

White dwarf stars, the endpoint of stellar evolution for 97% of stars in our Milky Way, offer a unique and powerful window into the bulk elemental composition of rocky exoplanetary…

astro-ph.SR2026

Detection of a weak magnetic field in the Balmer emission line white dwarf WDJ1653-1001

Abbigail Elms, Stefano Bagnulo, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay +8

The small DAHe and DAe spectral classes comprise isolated, hydrogen-dominated atmosphere white dwarfs that exhibit variable photometric flux and Balmer line emission. These mysteri…

astro-ph.SR2026

High Velocity Circumstellar Gas Orbiting a White Dwarf Star

B. Zuckerman, Érika Le Bourdais, Beth L. Klein +6

Numerous white dwarf stars are known to be orbited by disks of gas and dust. To date, broad, about 300 km s-1 wide, gaseous circumstellar absorption features have only been reporte…

astro-ph.EP2026

Accretion Rate Changes Detected in a Polluted White Dwarf

Jay Farihi, Hiba Tu Noor, Carl Melis +6

This letter reports statistically significant changes in the equivalent widths of MgII and CaII lines in the dusty and polluted white dwarf WD 0106-328, based on six epochs of spec…

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…