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Carbon stars and DZ white dwarfs are two types of rare objects in the Galaxy. In this paper, we have applied the label propagation algorithm to search for these two types of stars from Data Release Eight (DR8) of the Sloan Digital Sky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-25 Jianmin Si , Ali Luo , Yinbi Li , Jiannan Zhang , Peng Wei , Yihong Wu , Fuchao Wu , Yongheng Zhao

This paper presents new trigonometric parallaxes and proper motions for 214 stars. The measurements were made at the US Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station (NOFS) between 1989 and 2017, and the average uncertainty in the parallax values is…

We present low-resolution near-infrared spectra of discoveries from an all-sky proper motion search conducted using multi-epoch data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. Using the data from NEOWISE, along with the AllWISE catalog,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Jennifer J. Greco , Adam C. Schneider , Michael C. Cushing , J. Davy Kirkpatrick , Adam J. Burgasser

Based on the astrometry and photometry in Gaia DR3, we identified new nearby white dwarfs and validated those that had been missed from recent white dwarf catalogues despite being previously documented. To ensure the reliability of their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-04 Alex Golovin , Sabine Reffert , Akash Vani , Ulrich Bastian , Stefan Jordan , Andreas Just

We present the culmination of our near-infrared survey of the optically spectroscopically identified white dwarf stars from the McCook & Sion catalog, conducted using photometric data from the Two Micron All Sky Survey final All Sky Data…

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has created a knowledge gap between the Northern and the Southern hemispheres which is very marked for white dwarfs: only $\simeq 15$% of the known white dwarfs are south of the equator. Here we make use…

With the launch of the {\em Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer} ({\em WISE}), a new era of detecting planetary debris and brown dwarfs around white dwarfs (WDs) has begun with the {\em WISE} InfraRed Excesses around Degenerates (WIRED)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. H. Debes , D. W. Hoard , S. Wachter , D. T. Leisawitz , M. Cohen

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has already doubled the number of spectroscopically identified white dwarfs. However, there remains a wealth of white dwarfs in the McCook & Sion catalog for which little or nothing is known. We have thus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Gianninas , P. Bergeron , P. Dufour

The number of discovered non-radially pulsating white dwarfs (WDs) in cataclysmic variables (CVs) is increasing rapidly by the aid of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We performed photometric observations of two additional objects, SDSS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Nilsson , H. Uthas , M. Ytre-Eide , J-E. Solheim , B. Warner

(abridged) Deep multi-epoch Sloan Digital Sky Survey data in a 275 square degrees area along the celestial equator (SDSS stripe 82 = S82) allowed us to search for extremely faint ($i>21$) objects with proper motions larger than 0.14…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. -D. Scholz , J. Storm , G. R. Knapp , H. Zinnecker

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), originally targeted at quasi-stellar objects, has provided us with a wealth of astronomical byproducts through the last decade. Since then, the number of white dwarfs (WDs) with physically bound…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 René Heller , Axel D. Schwope , Roy H. Østensen

We report the discovery of fourteen new ZZ Cetis with the 4.1m Southern Astrophysical Research telescope, at Cerro Pachon, in Chile. The candidates were selected from the SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) DA white dwarf stars with Teff…

We present the discovery of 17 double white dwarf (WD) binaries from our on-going search for extremely low mass (ELM) <0.3 Msun WDs, objects that form from binary evolution. Gaia parallax provides a new means of target selection that we use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-08 Warren R. Brown , Mukremin Kilic , Alekzander Kosakowski , A. Gianninas

We report on the search for new eclipsing white dwarf plus main-sequence (WDMS) binaries in the light curves of the Catalina surveys. We use a colour selected list of almost 2000 candidate WDMS systems from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,…

We present medium resolution spectroscopy and multi-epoch VRI photometry for 21 new nearby (< 50 pc) white dwarf systems brighter than V ~ 17. Of the new systems, ten are DA (including a wide double degenerate system with two DA…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 John P. Subasavage , Todd J. Henry , P. Bergeron , P. Dufour , Nigel C. Hambly

We have conducted a spectroscopic survey of over 1300 bright (V < 17.5), hydrogen-rich white dwarfs based largely on the last published version of the McCook & Sion catalog. The complete results from our survey, including the spectroscopic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Alexandros Gianninas , Pierre Bergeron , Maria Teresa Ruiz

Infrared (IR) excess observed around white dwarfs (WDs) is typically attributed to companions or debris disks. These systems are interesting because they offer a unique opportunity to study the late stages of stellar evolution and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Keyi Wang , Qiong Liu , Siyi Xu , Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas

The Pan-STARRS1 survey has obtained multi-epoch imaging in five bands (Pan-STARRS1 gps, rps, ips, zps, and yps) on twelve "Medium Deep Fields", each of which spans a 3.3 degree circle. For the period between Apr 2009 and Apr 2011 these…

A catalog of 8472 white dwarf (WD) candidates is presented, selected using reduced proper motions from the deep proper motion catalog of Munn et al. 2014. Candidates are selected in the magnitude range 16 < r < 21.5 over 980 square degrees,…

White dwarfs with metal lines in their spectra act as signposts for post-main sequence planetary systems. Searching the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data release 12, we have identified 231 cool (<9000 K) DZ white dwarfs with strong metal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Mark Hollands , Detlev Koester , Vadim Alekseev , Emma Herbert , Boris T. Gaensicke