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Title:
Search for Giant Planets around White Dwarfs with HST, Spitzer, and VLT
Authors:
Friedrich, S.; Zinnecker, H.; Correia, S.; Brandner, W.; Burleigh, M.; McCaughrean, M.
Publication:
15th European Workshop on White Dwarfs ASP Conference Series, Vol. 372, proceedings of the conference held 7-11 August, 2006 in Leicester, United Kingdom. Edited by Ralf Napiwotzki and Matthew R. Burleigh. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2007., p.343
Publication Date:
09/2007
Origin:
ASP
Bibliographic Code:
2007ASPC..372..343F

Abstract

For the last three years we have performed a survey for young (<3 Gyrs) giant planets around nearby white dwarfs with HST, Spitzer, and VLT. Direct HST/NICMOS imaging of the seven white dwarfs in the Hyades gave no evidence for companions down to about 10 Jupiter masses and separations larger than 0.5 arcsec (˜ 25 AU), while VLT/NACO observations revealed a putative companion to a field white dwarf. Second epoch observations with SINFONI on the VLT, however, showed that it is most probably a background star. With IRAC on Spitzer we also found no indications of cool, very low mass companions in our sample of field white dwarfs. The implications of these non-detections are briefly discussed.
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