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We present a spectroscopic survey of 248 white dwarf candidates within 40 pc of the Sun; of these 244 are in the southern hemisphere. Observations were performed mostly with the Very Large Telescope (X-Shooter) and Southern Astrophysical…

Context: About 10% of white dwarfs have magnetic fields with strength in the range between about 10^5 and 3x10^8 G. It is not known whether the remaining white dwarfs are not magnetic, or if they have a magnetic field too weak to be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. D. Landstreet , S. Bagnulo , G. G. Valyavin , L. Fossati , S. Jordan , D. Monin , G. Wade

We conducted a spectropolarimetic survey of 58 high proper-motion white dwarfs which achieved uncertainties of >2 kG in the Halpha line and >5 kG in the upper Balmer line series. The survey aimed at detecting low magnetic fields (< 100 kG)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Adela Kawka , Stephane Vennes

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

A total of $\sim640,000$ objects from LAMOST pilot survey have been publicly released. In this work, we present a catalog of DA white dwarfs from the entire pilot survey. We outline a new algorithm for the selection of white dwarfs by…

We find that the ROSAT source 1RXS J105010.3-140431 is a cataclysmic variable with orbital period of 88.6 minutes and a spectrum closely resembling WZ Sge. In particular, emission lines are flanked by Stark-broadened absorption wings…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. E. Mennickent , M. Diaz , W. Skidmore , C. Sterken

We report the discovery of spectroscopic variations in the magnetic DBA white dwarf SDSS J091016.43+210554.2. Follow-up time-resolved spectroscopy at the Apache Point Observatory (APO) and the MMT show significant variations in the H…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-12 Adam Moss , P. Bergeron , Mukremin Kilic , Gracyn Jewett , Warren R. Brown , Alekzander Kosakowski , Olivier Vincent

We report our findings on a spectroscopic survey of seven unresolved DA+DB binary white dwarf candidates. We have discovered extreme spectroscopic variations in one of these candidates, SDSS J084716.21+484220.40. Previous analysis failed to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-13 Adam Moss , Mukremin Kilic , Pierre Bergeron , Gracyn Jewett , Warren Brown

We present the discovery of a magnetic field on the white dwarf component in the detached post common envelope binary (PCEB) CC Cet. Magnetic white dwarfs in detached PCEBs are extremely rare, in contrast to the high incidence of magnetism…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 David J. Wilson , Odette Toloza , John D. Landstreet , Boris T. Gaensicke , Jeremy J. Drake , J. J. Hermes , Detlev Koester

The presence of ultra-high excitation (UHE) absorption lines (e.g., O VIII) in the optical spectra of several of the hottest white dwarfs poses a decades-long mystery and is something that has never been observed in any other astrophysical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-08 Nicole Reindl , M. Bainbridge , N. Przybilla , S. Geier , M. Prvák , J. Krtička , R. H. Østensen , J. Telting , K. Werner

SDSS J030308.35+005444.1 is a close, detached, eclipsing white dwarf plus M dwarf binary which shows a large infrared excess which has been interpreted in terms of a circumbinary dust disk. In this paper we present optical and near-infrared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. G. Parsons , T. R. Marsh , B. T. Gänsicke , M. R. Schreiber , M. C. P. Bours , V. S. Dhillon , S. P. Littlefair

In only three of the 61 known magnetic white dwarfs helium has been identified unambiguously while about 20% of all non-magnetic stars of this class are known to contain HeI or HeII. Until recently, data for HeI data were available only for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. Jordan , P. Schmelcher , W. Becken

We model the structure of the surface magnetic fields of the hydrogen-rich white dwarfs in the SDSS. We have calculated a grid of state-of-the-art theoretical optical spectra of hydrogen-rich magnetic white dwarfs with magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 B. Kulebi , S. Jordan , F. Euchner , B. Gaensicke , H. Hirsch

We present analyses of near-infrared, spectroscopic data from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey for 45 previously confirmed or candidate white dwarf-main sequence (WDMS) binaries identified by the…

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

Magnitude-limited samples have shown that 20-25 per cent of cataclysmic variables contain white dwarfs with magnetic fields of Mega Gauss strength, in stark contrast to the approximately 5 per cent of single white dwarfs with similar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 S. G. Parsons , B. T. Gänsicke , M. R. Schreiber , T. R. Marsh , R. P. Ashley , E. Breedt , S. P. Littlefair , H. Meusinger

We report on the spectroscopic confirmation of 68 new bright ($G=13.5-17.2$ mag) and blue (pre-)white dwarfs (WDs). This finding has allowed us to almost double the number of the hottest ($T_{\mathrm{eff}} \geq 60$kK) known WDs brighter…

The origin of atmospheric heating in the cool, magnetic white dwarf GD 356 remains unsolved nearly 40 years after its discovery. This once idiosyncratic star with $T_{\rm eff}\approx7500$ K, yet Balmer lines in Zeeman-split emission is now…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-24 A. F. Lanza , N. Z. Rui , J. Farihi , J. D. Landstreet , S. Bagnulo

White dwarfs with metal lines in their spectra act as signposts for post-main sequence planetary systems. Searching the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data release 12, we have identified 231 cool (<9000 K) DZ white dwarfs with strong metal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Mark Hollands , Detlev Koester , Vadim Alekseev , Emma Herbert , Boris T. Gaensicke

A photometric and spectroscopic analysis of 152 cool white dwarf stars is presented. The discovery of 7 new DA white dwarfs, 2 new DQ white dwarfs, 1 new magnetic white dwarf, and 3 weak magnetic white dwarf candidates, is reported, as well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Bergeron , S. K. Leggett , Maria Teresa Ruiz