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Infrared (IR) excess observed around white dwarfs (WDs) is typically attributed to companions or debris disks. These systems are interesting because they offer a unique opportunity to study the late stages of stellar evolution and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Keyi Wang , Qiong Liu , Siyi Xu , Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas

In recent years, approximately 150 low-mass white dwarfs (WDs), typically with masses below 0.4 solar masses, have been discovered. Observational evidence indicates that most of these low-mass WDs are found in binary systems, supporting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Larissa Antunes Amaral , Maja Vučković , Ingrid Pelisoli , Alina Istrate , S. O. Kepler , Jacob M. Hibbert

We present new radial velocity and X-ray observations of extremely low-mass (ELM, 0.2 Msol) white dwarf candidates in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 area. We identify seven new binary systems with 1-18 h orbital periods.…

We present the discovery of 11 new double degenerate systems containing extremely low-mass white dwarfs (ELM WDs). Our radial velocity observations confirm that all of the targets have orbital periods $\leq$ 1 day. We perform spectroscopic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 A. Gianninas , Mukremin Kilic , Warren R. Brown , Paul Canton , Scott J. Kenyon

In this paper, we report white dwarfs identified in the 5th Data Release of the Large Area Multi-Object fibre Spectroscopic Telescope, including spectral types of DA, DB, DC, DZ, and so on. There are 2 625 DA spectra of 2 281 DA stars, 182…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Jincheng Guo , Jingkun Zhao , Huawei Zhang , Jiajun Zhang , Yu Bai , Nikolay Walters , Yong Yang , Jifeng Liu

We present a spectroscopically identified catalogue of 72 DA white dwarfs from the LAMOST pilot survey. 35 are found to be new identifications after cross-correlation with the Eisenstein et al. and Villanova catalogues. The effective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. K. Zhao , A. L. Luo , T. D. Oswalt , G. Zhao

In a search for new white dwarfs in DR12 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Kepler et al. (2016) found atmospheric parameters for thousands of objects with effective temperatures below 20,000 K and surface gravities between 5.5 < log(g) <…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-27 J. J. Hermes , B. T. Gaensicke , Elme Breedt

Gaia DR3, released in June 2022, included low-resolution XP spectra that have been used for the classification of various types of emission-line objects through machine-learning techniques. The Gaia Extended Stellar Parametrizer for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 Lionel Mulato , Jaroslav Merc , Stéphane Charbonnel , Olivier Garde , Pascal Le Dû , Thomas Petit

Context. White dwarf-main sequence (WDMS) binaries are used to study several different important open problems in modern astrophysics. Aims. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) identified the largest catalogue of WDMS binaries currently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-05 Juanjuan Ren , Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas , Ali Luo , Yongheng Zhao , Maosheng Xiang , Xiaowei Liu , Gang Zhao , Ge Jin , Yong Zhang

Double white dwarf systems are of great astrophysical importance in the field of gravitational wave and Type Ia supernova. While the binary fraction of CO core white dwarf is about a few percents, the extremely low mass white dwarfs are all…

We report the discovery of pulsations in three mixed-atmosphere, extremely low-mass white dwarf (ELM WD, M $\leqslant$ 0.3 M$_{\odot}$) precursors. Following the recent discoveries of pulsations in both ELM and pre-ELM WDs, we targeted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 A. Gianninas , Brandon Curd , G. Fontaine , Warren R. Brown , Mukremin Kilic

We present a set of white dwarf-main sequence (WDMS) binaries identified spectroscopically from the Large sky Area Multi-Object fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST, also called the Guo Shou Jing Telescope) pilot survey. We develop a color…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Juanjuan Ren , Ali Luo , Yinbi Li , Peng Wei , Jingkun Zhao , Yongheng Zhao , Yihan Song , Gang Zhao

The Gaia data release 2 (DR2) contains $>$6000 objects with parallaxes $(Plx+3\times{e\_Plx})>50$mas placing them within 20pc from the Sun. Since the expected numbers extrapolating the well-known 10pc census are much lower, nearby Gaia…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Ralf-Dieter Scholz

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

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 report the discovery of two new pulsating extremely low-mass (ELM) white dwarfs (WDs), SDSS J161431.28+191219.4 (hereafter J1614) and SDSS J222859.93+362359.6 (hereafter J2228). Both WDs have masses <0.25 Msun and thus likely harbor…

Ultra-compact double white dwarfs (DWDs) represent key targets for multi-messenger astrophysics, as they may be observed both through gravitational waves and the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. The future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Alice Perego , Astrid Lamberts , Mathias Schultheis , Nelson Christensen

We report the discovery of extremely low-mass white dwarfs (ELM WDs) as a companion of blue straggler stars (BSSs) in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 362 using images from AstroSats Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT). Spectral Energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Arvind K. Dattatrey , R. K. S. Yadav , Sharmila Rani , Annapurni Subramaniam , Gaurav Singh , Snehalata Sahu , Ravi S. Singh

Extremely low-mass white dwarf (ELM WD; $M_{\star}$ $\lesssim$ $0.18-0.20\ $ $M_{\odot}$) stars are thought to be formed in binary systems via stable or unstable mass transfer. Although stable mass transfer predicts the formation of ELM WDs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Leila M. Calcaferro , Leandro G. Althaus , Alejandro H. Córsico

We present a catalog of 857 white dwarf (WD)-M binaries from the sixth data release (DR6) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), most of which were previously identified. For 636 of them, we complete a spectral analysis and derive the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-16 René Heller , Derek Homeier , Stefan Dreizler , Roy Østensen