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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

The contribution of white dwarfs of the different Galactic populations to the stellar content of our Galaxy is only poorly known. Some authors claim a vast population of halo white dwarfs, which would be in accordance with some…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Ralf Napiwotzki

The magnetic white dwarfs (MWDs) are found either isolated or in interacting binaries. They divide into two groups: a high field group (0.1-1,000MegaGauss) comprising some 13% of all white dwarfs (WDs), and a low field group (B<0.1MG) whose…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Lilia Ferrario , D. T. Wickramasinghe , Adela Kawka

There has been a growing interest within the astrophysics community in highly magnetized and fast-spinning white dwarfs (WDs), commonly referred to as HMWDs. WDs with these characteristics are quite uncommon and possess magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-20 M. F. Sousa , E. Otoniel , J. G. Coelho , J. C. N. de Araujo

We present new observations of very faint white dwarfs (WDs) in the rich open star cluster NGC 2099 (M37). Following deep, wide field imaging of the cluster using CFHT, we have now obtained spectroscopic observations of candidate WDs using…

In this paper, we explore the properties of white dwarfs with the modified TOV equation in Einstein-$\Lambda$ gravity, the equilibrium configurations predict a maximum mass limit for white dwarfs same as the Chandrasekhar limit when we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-27 H. L. Liu , G. L. Lü

Magnetic fields are present in roughly 10% of white dwarfs. These fields affect the structure and evolution of such stars, and may provide clues about their earlier evolution history. Particularly important for statistical studies is the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 John D. Landstreet , Stefano Bagnulo

We describe spectroscopic observations of 21 low-mass (<0.45 M_sun) white dwarfs (WDs) from the Palomar-Green Survey obtained over four years. We use both radial velocities and infrared photometry to identify binary systems, and find that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Justin M. Brown , Mukremin Kilic , Warren R. Brown , Scott J. Kenyon

The relation between the zero-age main sequence mass of a star and its white-dwarf remnant (the initial-final mass relation) is a powerful tool for exploration of mass loss processes during stellar evolution. We present an empirical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kurtis A. Williams , M. Bolte , Detlev Koester

We consider the evolution of white dwarfs with compact object companions (specifically black holes with masses up to 10^6 solar masses, neutron stars, and other white dwarfs). We suppose that the orbits are initially quite elliptical and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yasser Rathore , Roger D. Blandford , Avery E. Broderick

The evolution of white dwarfs can be described as a simple cooling process. Recently, it has been possible to determine with an unprecedented precision their luminosity function, that is, the number of stars per unit volume and luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 J. Isern , S. Catalan , E. Garcia-Berro , S. Torres

We present a large parameter study where we investigate the structure of white dwarf (WD) merger remnants after the dynamical phase. A wide range of WD masses and compositions are explored and we also probe the effect of different initial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Dan , S. Rosswog , M. Brueggen , P. Podsiadlowski

We propose a novel and feasible method to detect dark matter (DM) electron interaction via pulsating white dwarfs (WDs) in the central region of globular clusters. Annihilation of the DM particles captured by those WDs can provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-30 Jia-Shu Niu , Weikai Zong , Hui-Fang Xue

An ungravity-inspired model is employed to examine the astrophysical parameters of white dwarf stars (WDs) using polytropic and degenerate gas approaches. Based on the observed properties such as mass, radius, and luminosity of selected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-06 Orfeu Bertolami , Hodjat Mariji

Reliable modeling of the atmospheres of cool white dwarfs is crucial for understanding the atmospheric evolution of these stars and for accurate white dwarfs cosmochronology. Over the last decade {\it ab initio} modeling entered many…

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

Around 10% of white dwarfs exhibit global magnetic structures with fields ranging from 1 kG to hundreds of MG. Recently, the first radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations of the atmosphere of white dwarfs showed that convection should be…

Approximately 25--50\% of white dwarfs (WDs) exhibit metal absorption lines in their photospheres, interpreted as evidence of ongoing/recent accretion of planetary debris from remnant systems. Previous theoretical studies have suggested…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zhangliang Chen , Xin-Yue Zhang , Di-Chang Chen , Kejun Wang , Bo Ma , Ji-Wei Xie , Ji-Lin Zhou

We present 594 radial velocity measurements for 71 white dwarfs obtained during our search for binary white dwarfs and not reported elsewhere. We identify three excellent candidate binaries, which require further observations to confirm our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. F. L. Maxted , T. R. Marsh , C. K. J. Moran