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Paper: |
Recent Results from Infrared Observations of White Dwarfs, their Companions, and the Dust that Surrounds Them |
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372, 15th European Workshop on White Dwarfs |
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501 |
Authors: |
Hoard, D.W.; Brinkworth, C.S.; Wachter, S. |
Abstract: |
Although "traditionally" observed at short wavelengths, white dwarfs have displayed many surprising features when probed in the infrared. We present an overview of recent results from ground- and space-based near- to mid-infrared observations of white dwarfs. These include the discovery of many new candidate binary stars containing low mass stellar or sub-stellar companions from a sample of objects previously thought to be single white dwarfs, and Spitzer Space Telescope observations that suggest that dust is common in the environs of white dwarfs in cataclysmic variables. |
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