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A SEARCH FOR PLANETARY ECLIPSES OF WHITE DWARFS IN THE Pan-STARRS1 MEDIUM-DEEP FIELDS

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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 796, Issue 2, Pages -

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/796/2/114

Keywords

planets and satellites: detection; white dwarfs

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  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration through the Planetary Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate [NNX08AR22G]
  2. National Science Foundation [AST-1238877, AST-1009749]
  3. Division Of Astronomical Sciences
  4. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1009749, 1238877] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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We present a search for eclipses of similar to 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-circle plus. 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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