Imaging planets around white dwarfs

White dwarfs should retain planetary systems in wide orbits (>≅5AU). Evolutionary models for Jovian planets show that infra-red imaging of suitable nearby white dwarfs should allow us to resolve and detect companions >≅5 M_tiny JUP. We have instigated programmes 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.