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

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

We present a search for eclipses of $\sim$1700 white dwarfs 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 dataset enables us …