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With the Keck I Low-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer we have observed nine white dwarf candidates in the very rich open cluster NGC 2099 (M37). The spectroscopy shows seven to be DA white dwarfs, one to be a DB white dwarf, and one to be a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Jeffrey D. Cummings , Jason S. Kalirai , P. -E. Tremblay , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , P. Bergeron

We present parallax observations and a detailed model atmosphere analysis of 54 cool and ultracool ($T_{\rm eff}$ < 4000 K) white dwarfs (WDs) in the solar neighbourhood. For the first time, a large number of cool and ultracool WDs have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Gianninas , B. Curd , John R. Thorstensen , Mukremin Kilic , P. Bergeron , Jeff J. Andrews , Paul Canton , M. A. Agüeros

We have identified eight to ten new cool white dwarfs from the Large Area Survey (LAS) Data Release 9 of the United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope (UKIRT) Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS). The data set was paired with the Sloan Digital Sky…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-02 P. -E. Tremblay , S. K. Leggett , N. Lodieu , B. Freytag , P. Bergeron , J. S. Kalirai , H. -G. Ludwig

We present a method which uses colour-colour cuts on SDSS photometry to select white dwarfs with hydrogen rich (DA) atmospheres without the recourse to spectroscopy. This method results in a sample of DA white dwarfs that is 95% complete at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-01 J. Girven , B. T. Gaensicke , D. Steeghs , D. Koester

A photometric and spectroscopic analysis of 152 cool white dwarf stars is presented. The discovery of 7 new DA white dwarfs, 2 new DQ white dwarfs, 1 new magnetic white dwarf, and 3 weak magnetic white dwarf candidates, is reported, as well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Bergeron , S. K. Leggett , Maria Teresa Ruiz

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 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 present an overview of the sample of northern hemisphere white dwarfs within 40 pc of the Sun detected from $Gaia$ Data Release 2 (DR2). We find that 521 sources are spectroscopically confirmed degenerate stars, 111 of which were first…

We present a catalog of 857 white dwarf (WD)-M binaries from the sixth data release (DR6) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), most of which were previously identified. For 636 of them, we complete a spectral analysis and derive the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-16 René Heller , Derek Homeier , Stefan Dreizler , Roy Østensen

We have presented 309 new white-dwarf (WD) + main-sequence (MS) star binaries identified from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Tenth Data Release (DR10). The majority of them consist of a white dwarf and a low-mass secondary (typically M…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Lifang Li , Xiaobo Gong , Fenghui Zhang , Quanwang Han , Xiaoyang Kong

Spectrophotometric observations at high signal-to-noise ratio were obtained of a complete sample of 347 DA white dwarfs from the Palomar Green (PG) Survey. Fits of observed Balmer lines to synthetic spectra calculated from pure-hydrogen…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 J. Liebert , P. Bergeron , J. B Holberg

Using the SDSS DR7 spectroscopic catalog, we searched the WISE AllWISE catalog to investigate the occurrence of warm dust, as inferred from IR excesses, around field M dwarfs (dMs). We developed SDSS/WISE color selection criteria to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-14 Christopher A. Theissen , Andrew A. West

Optical spectroscopic observations of white dwarf stars selected from catalogs based on the Gaia DR2 database reveal nine new gaseous debris disks that orbit single white dwarf stars, about a factor of two increase over the previously known…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Carl Melis , B. Klein , A. E. Doyle , A. J. Weinberger , B. Zuckerman , P. Dufour

We collected F606W- and F814W-band time-series data of the Sagittarius low-reddening window in the Galactic bulge with the Advanced Camera far Surveys mounted on the Hubble Space Telescope. We sampled the region approximately every two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 A. Calamida , K. Sahu , J. Anderson , S. Casertano , T. Brown , S. Cassisi , J. Sokol , H. Bond , H. Ferguson , M. Livio , M. Salaris , J. Valenti

Hot DA white dwarfs have fully radiative pure hydrogen atmospheres that are the least complicated to model. Pulsationally stable, they are fully characterized by their effective temperature Teff, and surface gravity log g, which can be…

The majority of merging white dwarfs leave behind a white dwarf remnant. Hot/warm DQ white dwarfs with carbon-rich atmospheres have high masses and unusual kinematics. All evidence points to a merger origin. Here, we demonstrate that far-UV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Mukremin Kilic , Pierre Bergeron , Warren R. Brown , Simon Blouin , Gracyn Jewett , Adam Moss , Patrick Dufour , Olivier Vincent

We present a catalog of 9316 spectroscopically confirmed white dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4. We have selected the stars through photometric cuts and spectroscopic modeling, backed up by a set of visual…

We present an improved spectroscopic and photometric analysis of hydrogen-line DA white dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4 based on model atmospheres that include improved Stark broadening profiles with non-ideal gas…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 P. -E. Tremblay , P. Bergeron , A. Gianninas

M dwarfs are the most common type of star in the Galaxy, and because of their small size are favored targets for searches of Earth-sized transiting exoplanets. Current and upcoming all-sky spectroscopic surveys, such as the Large Sky Area…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Brianna Galgano , Keivan Stassun , Barbara Rojas-Ayala

In Gentile Fusillo et al. (2015) we developed a selection method for white dwarf candidates which makes use of photometry, colours and proper motions to calculate a probability of being a white dwarf (Pwd). The application of our method to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 N. P. Gentile Fusillo , A. Rebassa-Mansergas , B. T. Gänsicke , X. -W. Liu , J. J. Ren , D. Koester , Y. Zhan , Y. Hou , Y. Wang , M. Yang