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White dwarfs with infrared excess emission provide a window into the late stages of stellar evolution and the dynamics of circumstellar environments. Using data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX), we…

The third Gaia data release provides low-resolution spectra for around 200 million sources. It is expected that a sizeable fraction of them contain a white dwarf (WD), either isolated, or in a binary system with a main-sequence (MS)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 David Echeverry , Santiago Torres , Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas , Aina Ferrer-Burjachs

Core-collapsed globular clusters are ideal targets to explore the presence of stellar collision products. Here, we have studied seventeen FUV bright white dwarf members in the globular cluster NGC 362 using data obtained from the Ultra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-22 R. K. S. Yadav , Arvind K. Dattatrey , Annapurni Subramaniam , Geeta Rangwal , Ravi S. Singh

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

Taking advantage of the now available Gaia EDR3 parallaxes, we carry out an archival {\it Hubble Space Telescope} (HST) far ultraviolet spectroscopic analysis of 10 cataclysmic variable systems, including 5 carefully selected eclipsing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Patrick Godon , Edward M. Sion

Multiplicity is a key statistic for understanding the formation of very low mass (VLM) stars and brown dwarfs. Currently, the separation distribution of VLM binaries remains poorly constrained at small separations ($\leq$ 1 AU), leading to…

We present photometric and spectroscopic studies of the white dwarf (WD) populations in the intermediate-age open clusters NGC 6633 and NGC 7063 as part of the ongoing Lick-Arizona White Dwarf Survey (LAWDS). Using wide-field CCD imaging,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Kurtis A. Williams , Michael Bolte

Approximately 70 percent of the nearby white dwarfs appear to be single stars, with the remainder being members of binary or multiple star systems. The most numerous and most easily identifiable systems are those in which the main sequence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. B. Holberg , T. D. Oswalt , E. M. Sion , M. A. Barstow , M. R. Burleigh

In our effort to complete the census of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs in the immediate Solar Neighborhood, we present spectra, photometry, proper motions, and distance estimates for forty-two low-mass star and brown dwarf candidates…

Double white dwarfs (DWDs) are by far the most common compact binaries in the Milky Way, are important low-frequency gravitational-wave sources, and in some cases merge to become Type Ia supernovae. So far, no DWD has been identified solely…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Gautham Adamane Pallathadka , Yossef Zenati , Nadia L. Zakamska , Ngan H. Nguyen , Anthony L. Piro

We present the SLoWPoKES-II catalog of low-mass visual binaries identified from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey by matching photometric distances. The candidate pairs are vetted by comparing the stellar density at their respective Galactic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Saurav Dhital , Andrew A. West , Keivan G. Stassun , Kyle J. Schluns , Angela P. Massey

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

Wide binaries play a crucial role in analyzing the birth environment of stars and the dynamical evolution of clusters. When wide binaries are located at greater distances, their companions may overlap in the observed images, becoming…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-14 You Wu , Jiao Li , Chao Liu , Yi Hu , Long Xu , Tanda Li , Xuefei Chen , Zhanwen Han

We determine the orbits of four double degenerate systems (DDs), composed of two white dwarfs, and of two white dwarf -- M dwarf binaries. The four DDs, WD1022+050, WD1428+373, WD1824+040, and WD2032+188, show orbital periods of 1.157155(5)…

Double white dwarf (DWD) binaries are expected to be very common in the Milky Way, but their intrinsic faintness challenges the detection of these systems. Currently, only a few tens of detached DWDs are know. Such systems offer the best…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 Valeriya Korol , Elena M. Rossi , Paul J. Groot , Gijs Nelemans , Silvia Toonen , Anthony G. A. Brown

Using WFPC2 on the Hubble Space Telescope, we have isolated a sample of 258 white dwarfs (WDs) in the Galactic globular cluster M4. Fields at three radial distances from the cluster center were observed and sizeable WD populations were…

Neutron star-white dwarf (NS+WD) binaries offer a unique opportunity for studying NS-specific phenomena with gravitational waves. In this paper, we employ the binary population synthesis technique to study the Galactic population of NS+WDs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-10 Valeriya Korol , Andrei P. Igoshev , Silvia Toonen , Nikolaos Karnesis , Christopher J. Moore , Eliot Finch , Antoine Klein

We present the results of a search for deeply-eclipsing white dwarfs in the ZTF Data Release 4. We identify nine deeply-eclipsing white dwarf candidates, four of which we followed up with high-cadence photometry and spectroscopy. Three of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-10 Alekzander Kosakowski , M. Kilic , W. R. Brown , P. Bergeron , T. Kupfer

The aim of the project is to identify wide common proper motion companions to a sample of spectroscopically confirmed M and L metal-poor dwarfs (also known as subdwarfs) to investigate the impact of metallicity on the binary fraction of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 J. González-Payo , M. Cortés-Contreras , N. Lodieu , E. Solano , Z. H. Zhang , M. -C. Gálvez-Ortiz

Binary stars consisting of a white dwarf and a main sequence star (WDMS) are valuable for studying key astrophysical questions. However, observational biases strongly affect the known population, particularly unresolved systems where the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Alejandro Santos-García , Santiago Torres , Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas , Alex J. Brown