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Accreting white dwarfs in close binary systems, commonly known as cataclysmic variables (CVs), with orbital periods below the canonical period minimum ($\approx$ 80 minutes) are rare. Such short periods can only be reached if the donor star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Ilkham Galiullin , Antonio C. Rodriguez , Kareem El-Badry , Ilaria Caiazzo , Paula Szkody , Pranav Nagarajan , Samuel Whitebook

White dwarf stars are ubiquitous in the Galaxy, and are essential to understanding stellar evolution. While most white dwarfs are photometrically stable and reliable flux standards, some can be highly variable, which can reveal unique…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Maya Steen , J. J. Hermes , Joseph A. Guidry , Annabelle Paiva , Jay Farihi , Tyler M. Heintz , Brison B. Ewing , Nathanial Berry

The identification and characterization of massive ($\gtrsim 0.8~M_\odot$) white dwarfs is challenging in part due to their low luminosity. Here we present two candidate single-lined spectroscopic binaries, Gaia DR3 4014708864481651840 and…

The spectroscopic class of subdwarf A-type (sdA) stars has come into focus in recent years because of their possible link to extremely low-mass white dwarfs, a rare class of objects resulting from binary evolution. Although most sdA stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-29 G. Mösenlechner , E. Paunzen , I. Pelisoli , J. Seelig , S. Stidl , H. M. Maitzen

We present the discovery of a binary system containing a white dwarf candidate using data from the LAMOST. Our analysis of the radial velocity data allowed us to determine an orbital period of approximately 0.953 days and a mass function of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Haifan Zhu , Wei Wang , Xue Lib , Jia-jia Li , Pengfu Tian

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…

The third data release of Gaia introduced a large catalog of astrometric binaries, out of which about 3,200 are likely main-sequence stars with a white-dwarf (WD) companion. These binaries are typically found with orbital separations of ~1…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-18 Na'ama Hallakoun , Sahar Shahaf , Tsevi Mazeh , Silvia Toonen , Sagi Ben-Ami

We present a detailed spectroscopic analysis of 61 low mass white dwarfs and provide precise atmospheric parameters, masses, and updated binary system parameters based on our new model atmosphere grids and the most recent evolutionary model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Gianninas , P. Dufour , Mukremin Kilic , Warren R. Brown , P. Bergeron , J. J. Hermes

We present 87 candidates for RR Lyrae variable stars in binary systems, based on our new search using the light-travel time effect (LTTE) and observed - calculated ($O-C$) diagrams in the Galactic bulge time-series photometry of the Optical…

Results are presented for a Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys high-resolution imaging campaign of 90 white dwarfs with known or suspected low mass stellar and substellar companions. Of the 72 targets which remain candidate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-06 J. Farihi , D. W. Hoard , S. Wachter

We aimed at collecting all known white dwarf pulsators with hydrogen-dominated atmospheres and list their main photometric and atmospheric parameters together with their pulsation periods and amplitudes observed at different epochs. For…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-25 Zs. Bognár , Á. Sódor

Combining archival photometric observations from multiple large-area surveys spanning the past 17 years, we detect long-term variability in the light curves of ZTFJ032833.52-121945.27 (ZTFJ0328-1219), ZTFJ092311.41+423634.16 (ZTFJ0923+4236)…

How confident are we that all of the nearest white dwarfs (WDs) have been identified? In an effort to answer this question, we have begun an initiative to identify and characterize new nearby WDs, particularly in the southern hemisphere. We…

We present a systematic survey for mass-transferring and recently-detached cataclysmic variables (CVs) with evolved secondaries, which are progenitors of extremely low-mass white dwarfs (ELM WDs), AM CVn systems, and detached ultracompact…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 Kareem El-Badry , Hans-Walter Rix , Eliot Quataert , Thomas Kupfer , Ken J. Shen

In this second paper on our variability survey of central stars of planetary nebulae (CSPNe) using ZTF, we report 11 long-timescale variables with variability timescales ranging from months to years. We also present preliminary analyses…

We report on phase-resolved optical spectroscopy and photometry in the R and B bands of the white dwarf candidate ZTF 185139.81+171430.3. The source has been reported to be variable with a large amplitude of close to 1 magnitude, in the R…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 C. C. Pedersen , M. R. M. Knudsen , K. Valeckas , L. Izzo , T. M. Tauris , J. P. U. Fynbo

Variations in the pulsation arrival time of five independent pulsation frequencies of the DB white dwarf EC 20058-5234 individually imitate the effects of reflex motion induced by a planet or companion but are inconsistent when considered…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-13 James Dalessio , Denis Sullivan , Judi Provencal , Harry Shipman , Tiri Sullivan , Dave Kilkenny , Luciano Fraga , Ramotholo Sefako

Gaia provided the largest-ever catalogue of white dwarf stars. We use this catalogue, along with the third public data release of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), to identify new eclipsing white dwarf binaries. Our method exploits light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-18 Pascal M. Keller , Elmé Breedt , Simon Hodgkin , Vasily Belokurov , James Wild , Ignacio García-Soriano , Jacob L. Wise

About a third of the hot subdwarfs of spectral type B, which are mostly core-helium burning objects on the extreme horizontal branch, are found in close binaries with cool, low-mass stellar, substellar, or white dwarf companions. They can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 V. Schaffenroth , I. Pelisoli , B. N. Barlow , S. Geier , T. Kupfer

We provide a detailed characterization of 2M07515777+1807352, a post-common envelope eclipsing binary system with a 10.3 d, nearly, but not quite, circular orbit (e = 0.02). This system consists of a massive white dwarf (WD) ($1.08$…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-23 Erin M. Motherway , Evan Linck , Robert D. Mathieu , Don Dixon , Keivan G. Stassun , Katelyn Breivik , Steven R. Majewski , Onno Pols