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2026AJ....171..144M - Astron. J., 171, 144 (2026/March-0)

Follow-up Observations of Candidate White Dwarf Planets with MIRI.

MULLALLY F., MULLALLY S.E., CRACRAFT M., BIANCO S.N., ALBERT L., DEBES J., HERMES J.J., KILIC M. and REACH W.T.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report on second-epoch imaging of two candidate planet-hosting white dwarf (WD) stars, WD 2105-82 and WD 1202-232. Both stars showed evidence of resolved, planet-mass candidate companions in observations using the MIRI mid-infrared imager on JWST. WD 2105 also showed evidence of an infrared excess consistent with an unresolved 1.4 MJ companion with an orbital separation of <4 au. Our second epoch observations confirm that the source of the excess shares common proper motion with the star. The excess is almost certainly due to a companion planet or debris disk. However, neither of the two resolved sources with projected separations of >1″ in the first epoch of JWST observations show measurable proper motion and are thus likely faint, unresolved background galaxies. We also search for common proper-motion companions out to hundreds of astronomical unit, but find no evidence of widely separated companions.

Abstract Copyright: © 2026. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): White dwarf stars - DA stars - Exoplanet astronomy - Direct imaging - Accretion - Stellar accretion - Astrometric exoplanet detection

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