7 papers
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…
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…
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, Ãrika 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…
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 observat…
A hot white dwarf merger remnant revealed by an ultraviolet detection of carbon
Snehalata Sahu, Antoine Bédard, Boris T. Gänsicke +7
Atmospheric carbon has been detected in the optical spectra of six hydrogen-rich ultra-massive white dwarfs, revealing large carbon abundances (log C/H > 0.5) attributable to th…
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…