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A Sensitive Identification of Warm Debris Disks in the Solar Neighborhood through Precise Calibration of Saturated WISE Photometry

Metchev, Stanimir A.; Heinze, Aren; Patel, Rahul I.

We present a sensitive search for WISE W3 (12 µm) and W4 (22 µm) excesses from warm optically thin dust around Hipparcos main sequence stars within 75 pc from the Sun. We use contemporaneously measured photometry from WISE, remove sources of contamination, and derive and apply corrections to saturated fluxes to attain optimal sensitivi…