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Context. Understanding the demographics of white dwarf - main sequence (WDMS) binaries is key to uncovering the formation of various stellar exotica and refining the details of binary stellar evolution. Despite several dedicated efforts to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Prasanta K. Nayak

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…

White dwarfs (WD) with main-sequence (MS) companions are crucial probes of stellar evolution. However, due to the significant difference in their luminosities, the WD is often outshined by the MS star. The aim of this work is to find hidden…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Xabier Pérez-Couto , Minia Manteiga , Eva Villaver

Recent studies of the stellar population in the solar neighborhood (<20 pc) suggest that there are undetected white dwarfs (WDs) in multiple systems with main sequence companions. Detecting these hidden stars and obtaining a more complete…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Ira Bar , Paul Vreeswijk , Avishay Gal-Yam , Eran O. Ofek , Gijs Nelemans

We have presented 309 new white-dwarf (WD) + main-sequence (MS) star binaries identified from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Tenth Data Release (DR10). The majority of them consist of a white dwarf and a low-mass secondary (typically M…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Lifang Li , Xiaobo Gong , Fenghui Zhang , Quanwang Han , Xiaoyang Kong

We present a catalogue of 1602 white dwarf-main sequence binaries (WDMS) from the spectroscopic Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 6 (SDSS DR6). Among these we identify 440 as new WDMS binaries. We select WDMS binary candidates from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Rebassa-Mansergas , B. T. Gaensicke , M. R. Schreiber , D. Koester , P. Rodriguez-Gil

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

White dwarf-main sequence (WDMS) binary systems are essential probes for understanding binary stellar evolution and play a pivotal role in constraining theoretical models of various transient phenomena. In this study, we construct a catalog…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-06 Jiadong Li , Yuan-Sen Ting , Hans-Walter Rix , Gregory M. Green , David W. Hogg , Juan-Juan Ren , Johanna Müller-Horn , Rhys Seeburger

We present near-infrared magnitudes for all white dwarfs (selected from the catalog of McCook & Sion) contained in the 2 Micron All Sky Survey Second Incremental Data Release(2MASS 2IDR). We show that the near-IR color-color diagram is an…

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

Discovery and characterisation of black holes (BHs), neutron stars (NSs), and white dwarfs (WDs) with detached luminous companions (LCs) in wide orbits are exciting because they are important test beds for dark remnant (DR) formation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Anindya Ganguly , Prasanta K. Nayak , Sourav Chatterjee

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Rebassa-Mansergas , A. Nebot Gomez-Moran , M. R. Schreiber , B. T. Gansicke , A. Schwope , J. Gallardo , D. Koester

Binary stars containing a white dwarf and a main-sequence star, WDMS binaries, can be used to study a wide range of aspects of stellar astrophysics. We build a magnitude-limited sample of unresolved WDMS binaries from Gaia DR3 to enlarge…

Wide binaries made up of two white dwarfs (WDs) receive far less attention than their tight counterparts. However, our tests using the binary population synthesis code {\tt StarTrack} indicate that, for any set of reasonable initial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jeff J. Andrews , Marcel A. Agüeros , Krzysztof Belczynski , Saurav Dhital , S. J. Kleinman , Andrew A. West

In this study, we demonstrate the efficacy of the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) in identifying and characterizing white dwarfs (WDs) within the Milky Way Galaxy. Leveraging the UVIT point source catalogue towards SMC and…

We describe radial velocity observations of a large sample of apparently single white dwarfs (WDs), obtained in a long-term effort to discover close, double-degenerate (DD) pairs which might comprise viable Type Ia Supernova (SN Ia)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Rex A. Saffer , Mario Livio , Lev R. Yungelson

We present the data release (DR) 5 catalogue of white dwarf-main sequence (WDMS) binaries from the Large Area Multi-Object fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST). The catalogue contains 876 WDMS binaries, of which 757 are additions to our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 J. -J. Ren , A. Rebassa-Mansergas , S. G. Parsons , X. -W. Liu , A. -L. Luo , X. Kong , H. -T. Zhang

The spectroscopic catalogue of white dwarf-main sequence (WDMS) binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is the largest and most homogeneous sample of compact binary stars currently known. However, because of selection effects, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Rebassa-Mansergas , C. Agurto-Gangas , M. R. Schreiber , B. T. Gaensicke , D. Koester

Infrared excess is an important probe of sub-stellar companions and/or debris disks around white dwarfs (WDs). Such systems are still rare for in-depth understanding of their formation and long-term evolution. One of the largest…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Lin Wang , Xiaoxia Zhang , Junfeng Wang , Zhi-Xiang Zhang , Taotao Fang , Wei-Min Gu , Jincheng Guo , Xiaochuan Jiang

We present a near-infrared photometric search for unresolved substellar companions and debris disks around white dwarfs in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey Large Area Survey. We cross-correlate the SDSS DR4 and McCook & Sion catalogues of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 P. R. Steele , M. R. Burleigh , P. D. Dobbie , R. F. Jameson , M. A. Barstow , R. P. Satterthwaite
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