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The identification of new white dwarfs (WDs) polluted with heavy elements is important since they provide a valuable tool for inferring chemical properties of putative planetary systems accreting material on their surfaces. The Gaia space…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-05 Xabier Pérez-Couto , Lara Pallas-Quintela , Minia Manteiga , Eva Villaver , Carlos Dafonte

The Gaia mission's third data release recorded low-resolution spectra for about 100 000 white dwarf candidates. A small subset of these spectra show evidence of characteristic broad Ca II absorption features, implying the accretion of rocky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Xander Byrne , Amy Bonsor , Laura K. Rogers , Mariona Badenas-Agusti

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

We cross-matched 1.3 million white dwarf (WD) candidates from Gaia EDR3 with spectral data from LAMOST DR7 within 3 arcsec. Applying machine learning described in our previous work, we spectroscopically identified 6,190 WD objects after…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Xiao Kong , A-Li Luo

The presence of infrared excess flux observed in white dwarfs (WDs) is related to the existence of debris disks or substellar companions. These systems provide important clues in the study of extrasolar planetary material and binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 R. Murillo-Ojeda , F. M. Jiménez-Esteban , A. Rebassa-Mansergas , S. Torres

With tens to hundreds of spectra of white dwarfs being taken each night from multi-object spectroscopic surveys, automated spectral classification is essential as part of efficient data processing. In this study, we design a neural network…

The next generation of spectroscopic surveys is expected to provide spectra for hundreds of thousands of white dwarf (WD) candidates in the upcoming years. Currently, spectroscopic classification of white dwarfs is mostly done by visual…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Olivier Vincent , Pierre Bergeron , Patrick Dufour

We present the Planetary Enriched White Dwarf Database (PEWDD), a collection of published photospheric abundances of white dwarfs accreting planetary debris alongside additional information relevant to metal-enrichment and the presence of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 Jamie Williams , Boris Gaensicke , Andrew Swan , Mairi O'Brien , Paula Izquierdo , Anna-Maria Cutolo , Tim Cunningham

We present the first application of the Machine Learning (ML) pipeline $\texttt{cecilia}$ to determine the physical parameters and photospheric composition of five metal-polluted He-atmosphere white dwarfs without well-characterised…

Identification of white dwarfs (WD) with main-sequence (MS) companions and characterization of their properties can put important constraints on our understanding of binary stellar evolution and guide the theoretical predictions for a wide…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-27 Prasanta K. Nayak , Anindya Ganguly , Sourav Chatterjee

Magnetic fields play a crucial role in compact object physics, particularly in white dwarfs (WDs), where high densities can sustain strong magnetic fields. Observations have revealed magnetized WDs (MWDs) with surface fields reaching…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Surajit Kalita , Akhil Uniyal , Tomasz Bulik , Yosuke Mizuno

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

This work combines spectroscopic and photometric data of the polluted white dwarf WD0141-675 which has a now retracted astrometric super-Jupiter candidate and investigates the most promising ways to confirm Gaia astrometric planetary…

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…

White dwarfs that have accreted rocky planetary bodies provide unique insights regarding the bulk composition of exoplanetary material. The analysis presented here uses observed white dwarf atmospheric abundances to constrain both where in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-06 John H. D. Harrison , Amy Bonsor , Nikku Madhusudhan

The latest Gaia data release provides low-resolution spectra for approximately 100 000 white dwarfs. Though useful for pre-classification, they lack the resolution required for accurate spectral type and parameter determination, motivating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Enrique Miguel García Zamora , Santiago Torres Gil , Alberto Rebassa Mansergas , Aina Ferrer i Burjachs

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

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

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…

In this article we describe the search for white dwarfs (WDs) in the multi-band photometric data of the Capodimonte deep field survey. The WD candidates were selected through the V-R_C vs B-V color-color diagram. For two bright objects, the…

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