White Dwarf Exoplanets

The JWST Cycle 2 MIRI search for Exoplanets Orbiting White-dwarfs (MEOW) Survey: A search for exoplanets that survived the CATastrophic end of their stars life

The Exoplanets of White Dwarfs

MEOW Spots a Planet Candidate Orbiting a Nearby White Dwarf (in prep)
Detecting Biosignatures and Constraining the Demographics of the Nearby White Dwarf Exoplanet Population with JWST

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We have three JWST programs to use direct imaging and infrared excess to search for or characterize white dwarf exoplanets orbiting nearby white dwarfs:
- The MIRI survey for Exoplanets Orbiting White-dwarfs (MEOW)

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- Probing the Dynamical History and the Mid-IR SED of WD 1856b
- Confirming a Giant Planet Around the White Dwarf GD 140

I am part of the Consortium on Habitability and Atmospheres of M-dwarf Planets (CHAMPs) is an interdisciplinary research team whose goal is to address the broad science question: Can planets around small stars (primarily M-dwarfs, but also white dwarfs) support life, and if so, how do we best observe and characterize them?

Cold Exoplanet around M-dwarfs

We are also searching for cold planets around M-dwarfs with a JWST program
- Cool kids on the block: The direct detection of cold ice giants and gas giants orbiting young low-mass neighbors

Such programs should be capable of detection small gas giant planets such as the proposed planet Wolf 359b:
- A Wolf 359 in sheep's clothing: Hunting for substellar companions in the fifth-closest system using combined high-contrast imaging and radial velocity analysis

Color composite image (at 7.7, 18 and 21 microns) from the JWST MIRI imager

I am also part of the Consortium on Habitability and Atmospheres of M-dwarf Planets (CHAMPs) is an interdisciplinary research team whose goal is to address the broad science question: Can planets around small stars (primarily M-dwarfs, but also white dwarfs) support life, and if so, how do we best observe and characterize them?