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We present an updated version of the spectroscopic white dwarf-main sequence (WDMS) binary catalogue from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). 395 new systems are serendipitous discoveries from the spectroscopic SDSSI/II Legacy targets. As…

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White dwarfs carry information on the structure and evolution of the Galaxy, especially through their luminosity function and initial-to-final mass relation. Very cool white dwarfs provide insight into the early ages of each population.…

We present 114 trigonometric parallaxes for 107 nearby white dwarf (WD) systems from both the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory Parallax Investigation (CTIOPI) and the U. S. Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station (NOFS) parallax…

White dwarfs with emission lines from gaseous debris discs are among the rarest examples of planetary remnant hosts, but at the same time they are key objects for studying the final evolutionary stage of planetary systems. Making use of the…

We have carried out $JHK_s$ imaging of 12 white dwarf debris disk candidates from the WIRED SDSS DR7 catalog, aiming to confirm or rule out disks among these sources. On the basis of positional identification and the flux density spectra,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Zhongxiang Wang , Anestis Tziamtzis , Xuebing Wang

In this work, we present the analysis of 976 814 FGKM dwarf and sub-giant stars in the TESS Full Frame Images (FFIs) of the Southern ecliptic hemisphere. We present a new pipeline, DIAmante, developed to extract optimized, multi-sector…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-25 M. Montalto , L. Borsato , V. Granata , G. Lacedelli , L. Malavolta , E. E. Manthopoulou , D. Nardiello , V. Nascimbeni , G. Piotto

Detecting gaseous debris disks around white dwarfs offers a unique window into the ultimate fate of planetary systems and the composition of accreted planetary material. Here we present a systematic search for such disks through the Ca II…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Ziying Ma , Xiaoxia Zhang , Taotao Fang , Junfeng Wang , Jincheng Guo , Xiaochuan Jiang , Zhi-Xiang Zhang , Hu Zou

White dwarf stars are the final stage of most stars, born single or in multiple systems. We discuss the identification, magnetic fields, and mass distribution for white dwarfs detected from spectra obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 S. O. Kepler , Alejandra Daniela Romero , Ingrid Pelisoli , Gustavo Ourique

We present 2271 radial velocity measurements taken on 118 single-line binary stars, taken over eight years with the CORALIE spectrograph. The binaries consist of F/G/K primaries and M-dwarf secondaries. They were initially discovered…

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 the discovery of two binary systems, each consisting of a slightly bloated G-type main-sequence star and an unseen companion, identified through photometric data from TESS and radial velocity variation from Gaia. High-resolution…

We report the discovery of an extremely close, eclipsing binary system. A white dwarf is orbited by a core He-burning compact hot subdwarf star with a period as short as $\simeq0.04987 {\rm d}$ making this system the most compact hot…

As part of an investigation into the high mass end of the initial mass-final mass relation we performed a search for new white dwarf members of the nearby (172.4 pc), young (80-90 Myr) $\alpha$ Persei open star cluster. The photometric and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-08 S. L. Casewell , P. D. Dobbie , S. Geier , N. Lodieu , N. C. Hambly

Studies of excess infrared radiation around white dwarfs provide important constraints on the evolution of planetary systems and low-mass stars beyond the main sequence stage. In this paper series, we focus on identifying and characterizing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-09 Siyi Xu , Samuel Lai , Erik Dennihy

A significant fraction of white dwarfs, the degenerate remnants of low- and intermediate-mass stars, host strong magnetic fields; yet, the origin and evolution of these magnetic fields remain poorly understood. Building a large,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Larissa L. Amorim , S. O. Kepler , Alejandra D. Romero

We present the preliminary results of a survey aimed at significantly increasing the range and completeness of the local census of spectroscopically confirmed white dwarfs. The current census of nearby white dwarfs is reasonably complete…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. -M. Limoges , S. Lepine , P. Bergeron

We present radial velocity observations of four binary white dwarf candidates identified through their over-luminosity. We identify two new double-lined spectroscopic binary systems, WD 0311-649 and WD 1606+422, and constrain their orbital…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 Mukremin Kilic , A. Bedard , P. Bergeron , Alekzander Kosakowski

We report the discovery of 16 detached M-dwarf eclipsing binaries with J<16 mag and provide a detailed characterisation of three of them, using high-precision infrared light curves from the WFCAM Transit Survey (WTS). Such systems provide…

Hot subdwarfs (sdBs) are core helium-burning stars, which lost almost their entire hydrogen envelope in the red-giant phase. Since a high fraction of those stars are in close binary systems, common envelope ejection is an important…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-02 S. Geier , T. Kupfer , U. Heber , B. N. Barlow , P. F. L. Maxted , C. Heuser , V. Schaffenroth , E. Ziegerer , R. H. Østensen , B. T. Gänsicke

Short-period white dwarf+main-sequence binaries are Post-Common-Envelope Binaries (PCEB) that have survived a common envelope phase. Such systems, if detached and eclipsing, enable precise measurements of the constituent stars, providing a…