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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

We identify and investigate known ultracool stars and brown dwarfs that are being observed or indirectly constrained by the Gaia mission. These objects will be the core of the Gaia ultracool dwarf sample composed of all dwarfs later than M7…

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We present the discovery of a white dwarf companion at 3.6" from GJ3346, a nearby ($\pi\sim$42 mas) K star observed with SPHERE@VLT as part of an open time survey for faint companions to objects with significant proper motion discrepancies…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 M. Bonavita , C. Fontanive , S. Desidera , V. D'Orazi , A. Zurlo , K. Muzic , B. Biller , R. Gratton , D. Mesa , A. Sozzetti

Spectroscopic observations of white dwarfs reveal that many of them are polluted by exoplanetary material, whose bulk composition can be uniquely probed this way. We present a spectroscopic and photometric analysis of the DA white dwarf…

We report the discovery of a strong magnetic field in the unique pulsating carbon-atmosphere white dwarf SDSS J142625.71+575218.3. From spectra gathered at the MMT and Keck telescopes, we infer a surface field of B_s ~1.2 MG, based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Dufour , G. Fontaine , J. Liebert , K. Williams , D. K. Lai

A handful of white dwarfs with helium-dominated atmospheres contain exceptionally large masses of hydrogen in their convection zones, with the metal-polluted white dwarf GD 16 being one of the earliest recognised examples. We report the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo , Boris T. Gänsicke , Jay Farihi , Detlev Koester , Matthias R. Schreiber , Anna F. Pala

A selection of 17 stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, previously identified as DC class white dwarfs (WDs), has been reported to show spectra very close to blackbody radiation in the wavelength range from ultraviolet to infrared. Due to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Aldo Serenelli , Rene Rohrmann , Masataka Fukugita

We identify a likely member of the NGC 752 open cluster (based on Gaia DR2 proper motions and parallax) having photometry consistent with being a white dwarf and a relatively low-mass main sequence star. If confirmed, this would be the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-20 Andrew J. Buckner , Eric L. Sandquist

Gaia DR3 provided a first release of RP spectra and astrophysical parameters for ultracool dwarfs. We used these Gaia RP spectra and astrophysical parameters to select the most outlying ultracool dwarfs. These objects have spectral types of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 W. J. Cooper , R. L. Smart , H. R. A. Jones , L. M. Sarro

In this work, we identify 734 ultracool dwarfs with a spectral type of M6 or later, including one L0. Of this sample, 625 were studied spectroscopically for the first time. All of these ultracool dwarfs are within 360~pc, with a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 You-Fen Wang , A-Li Luo , Wen-Ping Chen , Hugh R. A. Jones , Bing Du , Yin-Bi Li , Shuo Zhang , Zhong-Rui Bai , Xiao Kong , Yan-Xin Guo

We analyze the volume-limited nearly complete 100 pc sample of 95 halo white dwarf candidates identified by the second data release of Gaia. Based on a detailed population synthesis model, we apply a method that relies on Gaia astrometry…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-20 Santiago Torres , Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas , María E. Camisassa , Roberto Raddi

We report Spitzer Space Telescope photometry of eleven externally-polluted white dwarfs. Of the nine stars for which we have IRAC photometry, we find that GD 40, GD 133 and PG 1015+161 each has an infrared excess that can be understood as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. Jura , J. Farihi , B. Zuckerman

WD J2356$-$209 is a cool metal-polluted white dwarf whose visible spectrum is dominated by a strong and broad sodium feature. Although discovered nearly two decades ago, no detailed and realistic analysis of this star had yet been realized.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 S. Blouin , P. Dufour , N. F. Allard , S. Salim , R. M. Rich , L. V. E. Koopmans

We present a catalogue of white dwarf candidates selected from Gaia early data release three (EDR3). We applied several selection criteria in absolute magnitude, colour, and Gaia quality flags to remove objects with unreliable measurements…

We present a catalogue of 73,221 white dwarf candidates extracted from the astrometric and photometric data of the recently published Gaia DR2 catalogue. White dwarfs were selected from the Gaia Hertzsprung-Russell diagram with the aid of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 F. M. Jiménez-Esteban , S. Torres , A. Rebassa-Mansergas , G. Skorobogatov , E. Solano , C. Cantero , C. Rodrigo

We present an analysis of spectroscopic data of the cool, highly magnetic and polluted white dwarf 2MASS J0916-4215. The atmosphere of the white dwarf is dominated by hydrogen, but numerous spectral lines of magnesium, calcium, titanium,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-15 Stephane Vennes , Adela Kawka , Beth L. Klein , B. Zuckerman , Alycia J. Weinberger , Carl Melis

Ultraviolet and optical spectra of the hydrogen-dominated atmosphere white dwarf star G238-44 obtained with FUSE, Keck/HIRES, HST/COS, and HST/STIS reveal ten elements heavier than helium: C, N, O, Mg, Al, Si, P, S, Ca, and Fe. G238-44 is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Ted M Johnson , Beth L. Klein , D. Koester , Carl Melis , B. Zuckerman , M. Jura

We have identified two moderately hot (~18000-22000K) white dwarfs, SDSSJ1228+1040 and SDSSJ1043+0855, which exhibit double-peaked emission lines in the CaII 8600A triplet. These line profiles are unambiguous signatures of gaseous discs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-16 B. T. Gaensicke , T. R. Marsh , J. Southworth , A. Rebassa-Mansergas

We present ten new ultra-cool dwarfs in seven wide binary systems discovered using $\textit{Gaia}$ DR2 data, identified as part of our $\textit{Gaia}$ Ultra-Cool Dwarf Sample project. The seven systems presented here include an L1 companion…

We report the discovery of excess K-band radiation from a massive DAZ white dwarf star, GD362. Combining infrared photometric and spectroscopic observations, we show that the excess radiation cannot be explained by a stellar or substellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mukremin Kilic , Ted von Hippel , S. K. Leggett , D. E. Winget