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We summarize our findings on three cool ZZ Ceti type pulsating white dwarfs. We determined eight independent modes in HS 0733+4119, of which seven are new findings. For GD 154, we detected two new eigenmodes, and the recurrence of the…

We present time-resolved optical spectrophotometry of the pulsating hydrogen atmosphere (DA) white dwarf G 117-B15A. We find three periodicities in the pulsation spectrum (215s, 272s, and 304s) all of which have been found in earlier…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rubina Kotak , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , J. Christopher Clemens

In this paper we review the current status of research on the observational and theoretical characteristics of isolated and binary magnetic white dwarfs (MWDs). Magnetic fields of isolated MWDs are observed to lie in the range 10^3-10^9G.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Lilia Ferrario , Domitilla de Martino , Boris Gaensicke

In about last couple of decades, the inference of the violation of the Chandrasekhar mass-limit of white dwarfs from indirect observation is probably a revolutionary discovery in astronomy. Various researchers have already proposed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-16 Surajit Kalita , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Tushar Mondal , Tomasz Bulik

A 3.56-hour white dwarf (WD) - M dwarf (MD) close binary system, AR Scorpii, was recently reported to show pulsating emission in radio, IR, optical, and UV, with a 1.97-minute period, which suggests the existence of a WD with a rotation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-11 Jin-Jun Geng , Bing Zhang , Yong-Feng Huang

We present infrared observations in search of a planet around the white dwarf, GD66. Time-series photometry of GD66 shows a variation in the arrival time of stellar pulsations consistent with the presence of a planet with mass > 2.4Mj. Any…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Fergal Mullally , William T. Reach , Steven Degennaro , Adam Burrows

Fluxes are measured for the DA white dwarf plus brown dwarf pair GD 1400 with the Infrared Array Camera on the {\em Spitzer Space Telescope}. GD 1400 displays an infrared excess over the entire $3-8\mu$m region consistent with the presence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Farihi , B. Zuckerman , E. E. Becklin

We report on our findings of the bright, pulsating, helium atmosphere white dwarf GD 358, based on time-resolved optical spectrophotometry. We identify 5 real pulsation modes and at least 6 combination modes at frequencies consistent with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Rubina Kotak , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , J. C. Clemens , Detlev Koester

Virtually all binaries consisting of a white dwarf with a non-degenerate companion can be classified as either close post-interaction systems (with orbital periods of a few days or less), or wide systems (with periods longer than decades),…

Low mass white dwarfs are the remnants of disrupted red giant stars in binary millisecond pulsars and other exotic binary star systems. Some low mass white dwarfs cool rapidly, while others stay bright for millions of years due to stable…

We present the discovery of an unusual, tidally-distorted extremely low mass white dwarf (WD) with nearly solar metallicity. Radial velocity measurements confirm that this is a compact binary with an orbital period of 2.6975 hrs and a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Gianninas , J. J. Hermes , Warren R. Brown , P. Dufour , Sara D. Barber , Mukremin Kilic , Scott J. Kenyon , Samuel T. Harrold

We report the discovery of a white dwarf exhibiting deep, irregularly shaped transits, indicative of circumstellar planetary debris. Using Zwicky Transient Facility DR2 photometry of ZTF$\,$J013906.17+524536.89 and follow-up observations…

We found that ZTF J185139.81+171430.3 = ZTF18abnbzvx shows a very short [0.00858995(3) d = 12.37 min] and large-amplitude (0.8 mag) coherent variations using Public Data Release of Zwicky Transient Facility observations. The only known…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-23 Taichi Kato , Naoto Kojiguchi

We present optical high-speed photometry of three millisecond pulsars with low-mass ($< 0.3 M_{\odot}$) white dwarf companions, bringing the total number of such systems with follow-up time-series photometry to five. We confirm the…

The detection of pulsations in white dwarfs with low mass offers the possibility of probing their internal structure through asteroseismology and place constraints on the binary evolutionary processes involved in their formation. In this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. H. Córsico , L. G. Althaus

SDSS J080434.20+510349.2 is the WZ type binary that displayed rare outburst in 2006 (Pavlenko et al., 2007). During the long-lasting tail of the late stage of the outburst binary shown the two-humped or four-humped profile of the orbital…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Pavlenko Elena

We report the detection of periodic variations on the T_eff ~32 000 K DA white dwarf star HE 1017-1352. We obtained time series photometry using the 4.1 m SOAR telescope on three separate nights for a total of 16.8 h. From the frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Alejandra D. Romero , L. Antunes Amaral , S. O. Kepler , L. Fraga , D. Kurtz , H. Shibahashi

We present results from the high precision timing analysis of the pulsar-white dwarf (WD) binary PSR J1012+5307 using 15 years of multi-telescope data. Observations were performed regularly by the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA)…

AG Dra is a well known bright symbiotic binary with a white dwarf and a pulsating red giant. The long-term photometry monitoring and a new behaviour of the system are presented. The detailed period analysis of photometry as well as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ladislav Hric , Rudolf Galis , Laurits Leedjarv , Marry Burmeister , Emil Kundra

We present 594 radial velocity measurements for 71 white dwarfs obtained during our search for binary white dwarfs and not reported elsewhere. We identify three excellent candidate binaries, which require further observations to confirm our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. F. L. Maxted , T. R. Marsh , C. K. J. Moran