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We have cross-correlated the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) white dwarf catalog with the GALEX 2nd Data Release and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data release 5 to obtain ultraviolet photometry (FUV, NUV) for approximately 700 objects…

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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 report on our findings of the bright, pulsating, helium atmosphere white dwarf GD 358, based on time-resolved optical spectrophotometry. We identify 5 real pulsation modes and at least 6 combination modes at frequencies consistent with…

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This work brings a wavelet analysis for 14 Kepler white dwarf stars, in order to confirm their photometric variability behavior and to search for periodicities in these targets. From the observed Kepler light curves we obtained the wavelet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-17 S. R. de Lira , J. P. Bravo , I. C. Leao , A. D. da Costa , B. L. Canto Martins , D. B. de Freitas , J. R. De Medeiros

Using archival observations recorded over a 5+ year timeframe with the NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite, we present a study of the ultraviolet (UV) variability of 4360 quasars of redshifts up to z=2.5 that have optical…

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The {\it Gaia} satellite recently released parallax measurements for $\sim$260,000 high-confidence white dwarf candidates, allowing for precise measurements of their physical parameters. By combining these parallaxes with Pan-STARRS and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Olivier Vincent , Pierre Bergeron , David Lafrenière

In order to develop and test a methodology to search for UV variability over the entire GALEX database down to the shortest time scales, we analyzed time-domain photometry of $\sim5000$ light curves of $\sim300$ bright $(m_{\rm{FUV}},…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Alexander de la Vega , Luciana Bianchi

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 a sample of 59 periodic variables from the Palomar Transient Factory, selected from published catalogues of white dwarf (WD) candidates. The variability can likely be attributed to ellipsoidal variation of the tidally distorted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-18 Wil Kao , David L. Kaplan , Thomas A. Prince , Sumin Tang , Irina Ene , Kyu Bin Kim , David Levitan , Shrinivas R. Kulkarni , Russ R. Laher

We present comprehensive catalogs of hot star candidates in the Milky Way, selected from GALEX far-UV (FUV, 1344-1786 AA) and near-UV (NUV, 1771-2831 AA) imaging. The FUV and NUV photometry allows us to extract the hottest stellar objects,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Luciana Bianchi , Boryana Efremova , James Herald , Leo Girardi , Alexandre Zabot , Paola Marigo , Christopher Martin

We have performed the first systematic search of the full GALEX data archive for astrophysical variability on timescales of seconds to minutes by rebinning data across the whole mission to 30-second time resolution. The result is the GALEX…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-29 Chase C. Million , Michael St. Clair , Scott W. Fleming , Luciana Bianchi , Rachel Osten

With the launch of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), a new era of detecting planetary debris around white dwarfs has begun with the WISE InfraRed Excesses around Degenerates (WIRED) Survey. The WIRED Survey will be sensitive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. H. Debes , D. W. Hoard , M. Kilic , S. Wachter , D. T. Leisawitz , M. Cohen , J. D. Kirkpatrick , R. L. Griffith

We present a census of photometrically detected rotation periods for white dwarf (WD) stars. We analyzed the light curves of 9285 WD stars observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite up to Sector 69. Using Fourier transform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-09 Gabriela Oliveira da Rosa , S. O. Kepler , L. T. T. Soethe , Alejandra D. Romero , Keaton J. Bell

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, we detail the first abundance analysis enabled by far-ultraviolet spectroscopy of a low-mass (~0.19 Msun) white dwarf (WD), GALEX J1717+6757, which is in a 5.9-hr binary with a fainter, more-massive…

White dwarf main-sequence (WDMS) binaries provide important laboratories for studying binary evolution and the formation of low-mass white dwarfs. In this work, we identify 654 reliable WDMS candidates with FGK-type companions from an…

We present a catalog of 150 variable stars, including 13 stars with exoplanet candidates. 37 stars were identified as variables for the first time. As a result of a 2.5-year photometric survey of exoplanets, we have obtained and analyzed…

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

The stellar evolution theory of massive stars remains uncalibrated with high-precision photometric observational data mainly due to a small number of luminous stars that are monitored from space. Automated all-sky surveys have revealed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Jaan Laur , Indrek Kolka , Tõnis Eenmäe , Taavi Tuvikene , Laurits Leedjärv

White dwarfs with a F, G or K type companion represent the last common ancestor for a plethora of exotic systems throughout the galaxy, though to this point very few of them have been fully characterised in terms of orbital period and…

We present a catalog of 71,364 point-like UV sources with SDSS photometry and GALEX FUV-NUV less or equal 0.1mag. The limit corresponds to stellar Teff greater than 15,000 to 20,000K, slightly depending on gravity but nearly…

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