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2014ApJ...796..114F - Astrophys. J., 796, 114 (2014/December-1)

A search for planetary eclipses of white dwarfs in the Pan-STARRS1 medium-deep fields.

FULTON B.J., TONRY J.L., FLEWELLING H., BURGETT W.S., CHAMBERS K.C., HODAPP K.W., HUBER M.E., KAISER N., WAINSCOAT R.J. and WATERS C.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present a search for eclipses of ∼1700 white dwarfs (WDs) in the Pan-STARRS1 medium-deep fields. Candidate eclipse events are selected by identifying low outliers in over 4.3 million light curve measurements. We find no short-duration eclipses consistent with being caused by a planetary size companion. This large data set enables us to place strong constraints on the close-in planet occurrence rates around WDs for planets as small as 2 R⊕. Our results indicate that gas giant planets orbiting just outside the Roche limit are rare, occurring around less than 0.5% of WDs. Habitable-zone super-Earths and hot super-Earths are less abundant than similar classes of planets around main-sequence stars. These constraints provide important insight into the ultimate fate of the large population of exoplanets orbiting main-sequence stars.

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Journal keyword(s): planets and satellites: detection - white dwarfs

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