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We have cross-correlated the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) white dwarf catalog with the GALEX 2nd Data Release and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data release 5 to obtain ultraviolet photometry (FUV, NUV) for approximately 700 objects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adela Kawka , Stephane Vennes

We have calculated optical spectra of hydrogen-rich (DA) white dwarfs with magnetic field strengths between 1 MG and 1000 MG for temperatures between 7000 K and 50000 K. Through a least-squares minimization scheme with an evolutionary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Baybars Külebi , Stefan Jordan , Fabian Euchner , Heiko Hirsch , Wolfgang Löffler

We present a detailed spectroscopic and photometric analysis of DA and DB white dwarfs drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with trigonometric parallax measurements available from the Gaia mission. The temperature and mass scales…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-08 C. Genest-Beaulieu , P. Bergeron

Our aim is to compile a catalog of white dwarfs within 40 parsecs of the Sun, in which newly discovered objects would significantly increase the completeness of the current census. White dwarf candidates are identified from the SUPERBLINK…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. -M. Limoges , P. Bergeron , Sebastien Lepine

We present a spectroscopic analysis of nearly 8000 late-type dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Using the Halpha emission line as an activity indicator, we investigate the fraction of active stars as a function of spectral type and…

We present optical spectroscopy and near-infrared photometry of 126 cool white dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Our sample includes high proper motion targets selected using the SDSS and USNO-B astrometry and a dozen…

We present a spectroscopic catalog of 70,841 visually inspected M dwarfs from the seventh data release (DR7) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). For each spectrum, we provide measurements of the spectral type, a number of molecular…

We present an updated version of the spectroscopic catalogue of white dwarf-main sequence (WDMS) binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We identify 939 WDMS binaries within the data releases (DR) 9-12 of SDSS plus 40 objects…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 A. Rebassa-Mansergas , J. J. Ren , S. G. Parsons , B. T. Gaensicke , M. R. Schreiber , E. Garcia-Berro , X. -W. Liu , D. Koester

White dwarf cooling sequences provides a useful indicator of the evolutionary time scales involved in the chronometry and star formation history of the galactic disk and, for this reason, the luminosity function of white dwarfs has become a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rene A. Mendez , Maria T. Ruiz

White dwarfs (WDs) can be used as laboratories to test strong gravity and high-density regimes, once their equation of state is not so uncertain as the one of neutron stars. This makes them also a useful tool to constrain dark-matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-16 G. A. Carvalho , J. D. V. Arbañil , J. G. Coelho

We report a single-lined white dwarf-main sequence binary system, LAMOST J172900.17+652952.8, which is discovered by LAMOST's medium resolution time-domain surveys. The radial velocity semi-amplitude and orbital period of the optical…

Luminosity functions and their integrated luminosity densities are presented for the 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS). This ongoing survey ultimately aims to measure around 150,000 redshifts and 15,000 peculiar velocities over almost the entire…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Heath Jones , Bruce A. Peterson , Matthew Colless , Will Saunders

We use a large sample of galaxies from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to calculate galaxy luminosity and stellar mass functions in the local Universe. We estimate k-corrections, evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Eric F. Bell , Daniel H. McIntosh , Neal Katz , Martin D. Weinberg

A recent cross-correlation between the SDSS DR7 White Dwarf Catalog with the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer ($WISE$) all-sky photometry at 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 microns performed by Debes et al. (2011) resulted in the discovery of 52…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Sara D. Barber , Mukremin Kilic , Warren R. Brown , A. Gianninas

In November 2019, the nearby single, isolated DQ-type white dwarf LAWD 37 (WD 1142-645) aligned closely with a distant background source and caused an astrometric microlensing event. Leveraging astrometry from \Gaia{} and followup data from…

We present a catalog of 8545 and 19,257 unique DA white dwarfs observed in SDSS Data Release 19 and previous SDSS data releases, respectively. This is the largest catalog of both spectroscopic and photometric measurements of DA white dwarfs…

Approximately 25--50\% of white dwarfs (WDs) exhibit metal absorption lines in their photospheres, interpreted as evidence of ongoing/recent accretion of planetary debris from remnant systems. Previous theoretical studies have suggested…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zhangliang Chen , Xin-Yue Zhang , Di-Chang Chen , Kejun Wang , Bo Ma , Ji-Wei Xie , Ji-Lin Zhou

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will carry out a digital photometric and spectroscopic survey over pi steradians in the northern Galactic cap. An array of CCD detectors used in drift-scan mode will image the sky in five passbands to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jon Loveday

We review the available near- and mid- infrared photometry data sets for white dwarfs from the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) Point Source Catalog and the Spitzer Space Telescope. These data sets have been widely used to search for white…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. -E. Tremblay , P. Bergeron