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| Paper: |
Imaging Extrasolar Planets Around Nearby White Dwarfs |
| Volume: |
294, Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets |
| Page: |
111 |
| Authors: |
Burleigh, M.; Clarke, F.; Hodgkin, S. |
| Abstract: |
White dwarfs should retain planetary systems in wide orbits (greater than about 5 AU). Evolutionary models for jovian planets show that infrared imaging of suitable nearby white dwarfs should allow us to resolve and detect companions of mass greater than about 5 Jupiter masses. We have instigated programs with both the 8m Gemini North (using NIRI), Gemini South (using Flamingos) and with the NAOMI Adaptive Optics system on the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope to search for such objects, which will share the large proper motions of their white dwarf hosts. |
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