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We present spectroscopic observations confirming the identification of hot white dwarfs among UV-bright sources from the Sandage Two-color Survey of the Galactic plane and listed in the Lanning (Lan) catalog of such sources. A subsample of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Sebastien Lepine , P. Bergeron , Howard H. Lanning

We present improved atmospheric parameters of nearby white dwarfs lying within 20 pc of the Sun. The aim of the current study is to obtain the best statistical model of the least-biased sample of the white dwarf population. A homogeneous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Noemi Giammichele , Pierre Bergeron , Patrick Dufour

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

We present the culmination of our near-infrared survey of the optically spectroscopically identified white dwarf stars from the McCook & Sion catalog, conducted using photometric data from the Two Micron All Sky Survey final All Sky Data…

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

The WISE satellite has detected hundreds of millions sources over the entire sky. Classifying them reliably is however a challenging task due to degeneracies in WISE multicolour space and low levels of detection in its two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-13 Agnieszka Kurcz , Maciej Bilicki , Aleksandra Solarz , Magdalena Krupa , Agnieszka Pollo , Katarzyna Małek

The ESO Supernova Ia Progenitor Survey (SPY) took high-resolution spectra of more than 1000 white dwarfs and pre-white dwarfs. About two thirds of the stars observed are hydrogen-dominated DA white dwarfs. Here we present a catalog and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Koester , B. Voss , R. Napiwotzki , N. Christlieb , D. Homeier , T. Lisker , D. Reimers , U. Heber

We present a comprehensive investigation of He I line profile calculations used in the spectroscopic analyses of DB white dwarfs. Our study includes an in-depth photometric and spectroscopic analysis of all DB white dwarfs in the Data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Patrick Tremblay , Pierre Bergeron , Alain Beauchamp

We present a detailed model atmosphere analysis of hot white dwarfs in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1. Our sample includes 19,321 unique targets with $G_{\rm BP}-G_{\rm RP}\leq0$. We use the DESI spectra…

Practically all known planet hosts will evolve into white dwarfs, and large parts of their planetary systems will survive this transition - the same is true for the solar system beyond the orbit of Mars. Spectroscopy of white dwarfs…

Spectroscopically identified white dwarfs from the SDSS data release 1 are matched against SDSS data release 1 proper motion survey in the search for common proper motion companions

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-10 John Greaves

In preparation for the upcoming all-sky data releases of the Gaia mission we compiled a catalogue of known hot subdwarf stars and candidates drawn from the literature and yet unpublished databases. The catalogue contains 5613 unique sources…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 S. Geier , R. H. Østensen , P. Nemeth , N. P. Gentile Fusillo , B. T. Gänsicke , J. H. Telting , E. M. Green , J. Schaffenroth

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

We present precise photometry and spectroscopy for 23 candidate spectrophotometric standard white dwarfs. The selected stars are distributed in the Northern hemisphere and around the celestial equators and are all fainter than r ~ 16.5 mag.…

Thanks to Gaia and large-scale spectroscopic follow-up surveys (4MOST, DESI, WEAVE, SDSS-V), it is now possible to build representative and minimally biased samples of the local white dwarf population. Here we analyse several volume-limited…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Emily K. Roberts , Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay , Antoine Bédard

This paper describes the fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through June 2004. The data release includes five-band photometric data for 180 million objects selected over 6670…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. K. Adelman-McCarthy et al.

We present results from a search for short time-scale white dwarf variability using \texttt{gPhoton}, a time-tagged database of \textit{GALEX} photon events and associated software package. We conducted a survey of $320$ white dwarf stars…

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

With its third data release (DR3), Gaia begins unveiling dormant candidate compact object (CO) binaries with luminous companion (LC) as predicted by several past theoretical studies. To date, 3 black hole (BH), 21 neutron star (NS), and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-01 Chirag Chawla , Sourav Chatterjee , Katelyn Breivik

We increase the spectroscopic completeness of the 100 pc white dwarf sample in the SDSS footprint with 840 additional spectra. Our spectroscopy is 86% complete for white dwarfs hotter than $T_{\rm eff}= 5000$ K, where H$\alpha$ remains…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-09 Mukremin Kilic , Pierre Bergeron , Simon Blouin , Adam Moss , Warren R. Brown , Antoine Bedard , Gracyn Jewett , Marcel A. Agueros