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We present a catalogue of 62 polluted white dwarfs observed by the 9th Low-Resolution Data Release of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST LRS DR9v1; R$\approx$1,800) and the Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 Mariona Badenas-Agusti , Andrew Vanderburg , Simon Blouin , Patrick Dufour , Javier Viaña , Sara Seager , Sharon X. Wang

Archival X-ray observations of EF Eridani obtained in a low state revealed distinct X-ray detections at a luminosity L_X ~ 2 10^{29} erg/s, three orders of magnitude below its high state value. The plasma temperature was found to be as low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. D. Schwope , A. Staude , D. Koester , J. Vogel

We have calculated a grid of more than 700 model atmospheres valid for a wide range of parameters encompassing the coolest known M~dwarfs, M~subdwarfs and brown dwarf candidates: $1500\le \teff \le 4000\,$K, $3.5\le \log(g)\le 5.5$, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 France Allard , Peter H. Hauschildt

During the low optical brightness states of AM Herculis systems (polars) when accretion has declined to a very low value, the underlying magnetic white dwarf photosphere can be modelled without the complication of thermal bremstrahlung and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward Michael Sion

The spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of low-mass low-metallicity (dwarf) galaxies are a challenging piece of the puzzle of galaxy formation in the near Universe. These SEDs show some particular features in the submillimeter to…

Microlensing events observed in the line of sight toward the LMC indicate that a significant fraction of the mass of the dark halo of the Galaxy is probably composed of white dwarfs. In addition, white dwarf sequences have now be observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Saumon , S. B. Jacobson

Planets in M dwarf stars' habitable zones are likely to be tidally locked with orbital periods of order tens of days. This means that the effects of rotation on atmospheric dynamics will be relatively weak, which requires small horizontal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Sean M. Mills , Dorian S. Abbot

The characterization of white dwarf atmospheres is crucial for accurately deriving stellar parameters such as effective temperature, mass, and age. We aim to classify the population of white dwarfs up to 500 pc into hydrogen-rich or…

White dwarf evolution is essentially a gravothermal cooling process, which,for cool white dwarfs, sensitively depends on the treatment of the outer boundary conditions. We provide detailed outer boundary conditions appropriate for computing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 R. D. Rohrmann , L. G. Althaus , E. García-Berro , A. H. Córsico , M. M. Miller Bertolami

Present-day semi-empirical models of solar irradiance (SI) variations employ spectra computed on one-dimensional atmosphere models (1D models) representative of various solar surface features to reconstruct SI changes measured on timescales…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 A. Cristaldi , I. Ermolli

For a long time, no hydrogen-deficient white dwarfs have been known that have effective temperature between 30 kK and < 45 kK, i.e. exceeding those of DB white dwarfs and having lower ones than DO white dwarfs. Therefore, this temperature…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 S. D. Huegelmeyer , S. Dreizler

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…

We present the first linear polarimetric survey of white dwarfs (WDs). Our sample consists of WDs of DA and DC spectral types in the SDSS r magnitude range from 13 to 17. We performed polarimetric observations with the RoboPol polarimeter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-15 M. Żejmo , A. Słowikowska , K. Krzeszowski , P. Reig , D. Blinov

Over the last decade {\it ab initio} modeling of material properties has become widespread in diverse fields of research. It has proved to be a powerful tool for predicting various properties of matter under extreme conditions. We apply…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Piotr M. Kowalski , Mukremin Kilic

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

The study of the atmosphere of exoplanets orbiting white dwarfs is a largely unexplored field. With WD\,0806-661\,b, we present the first deep dive into the atmospheric physics and chemistry of a cold exoplanet around a white dwarf. We…

Some low-mass white-dwarf (LMWD) stars with H atmospheres show long-period g-mode pulsations, comprising the class of pulsating WDs called extremely low-mass variable (ELMV) stars. It is generally believed that these stars have thick H…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Leila M. Calcaferro , Alejandro H. Córsico , Leandro G. Althaus , Alejandra D. Romero , S. O. Kepler

We obtained medium-resolution near-infrared spectra of seven young M9.5-L3 dwarfs classified in the optical. We aim to confirm the low surface gravity of the objects in the NIR. We also test whether atmospheric models correctly represent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 E. Manjavacas , M. Bonnefoy , J. E. Schlieder , F. Allard , P. Rojo , B. Goldman , G. Chauvin , D. Homeier , N. Lodieu , T. Henning

We present a detailed analysis of all the known Hot DQ white dwarfs in the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) recently found to have carbon dominated atmospheres. Our spectroscopic and photometric analysis reveals…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Dufour , G. Fontaine , J. Liebert , G. D. Schmidt , N. Behara

We report the discovery of pulsations in the extremely low mass (ELM), likely helium-core white dwarf GD 278 via ground- and space-based photometry. GD 278 was observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in Sector 18 at a…