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Hot DA white dwarfs have fully radiative pure hydrogen atmospheres that are the least complicated to model. Pulsationally stable, they are fully characterized by their effective temperature Teff, and surface gravity log g, which can be…

We present a catalog of 531 white dwarf candidates that have large apparent transverse motions relative to the Sun ($v_{T} > 200$ km s$^{-1}$), thus making them likely members of the local Galactic halo population. The candidates were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-20 Bokyoung Kim , Sebastien Lépine , Ilija Medan

We present a spectro-photometric analysis of 2880 cool white dwarfs within 100 pc of the Sun and cooler than Teff = 10,000 K, with grizy Pan-STARRS photometry and Gaia trigonometric parallaxes available. We also supplement our data sets…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Alexandre Caron , Pierre Bergeron , Simon Blouin , Sandy K. Leggett

The main goal of this work was to measure the masses and radii of white dwarfs that belong to widely separated, common proper motion binaries with non-degenerate companions. These can be assessed, independently from theoretical mass-radius…

Mergers of double white dwarfs are considered significant potential progenitors of type Ia supernovae. Although there is no direct observational evidence to definitively determine the formation pathways of SNe Ia, studying the physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Ziyue Jiang , Hailong Yuan , Zhongrui Bai , Mingkuan Yang , Xiaozhen Yang , Qian Liu , Yuji He , Ganyu Li , Yiqiao Dong , Mengxin Wang , Ming Zhou , Haotong Zhang

By selecting astrometric and photometric data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), the L{\'e}pine & Shara Proper Motion North Catalog (LSPM-North), the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), and the USNO-B1.0 catalog, we use a succession…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Conor Sayres , John P. Subasavage , P. Bergeron , P. Dufour , James R. A. Davenport , Yusra AlSayyad , Benjamin M. Tofflemire

We investigate the sample of 1175 new nonmagnetic DA white dwarfs with the effective temperatures T_eff > 12000 K, which were extracted from the Data Release 1 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We determined masses, radii, and bolometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Madej , M. Nalezyty , L. G. Althaus

We present a detailed model atmosphere analysis of 14001 DA white dwarfs from the Montreal White Dwarf Database with ultraviolet photometry from the GALEX mission. We use the 100 pc sample, where the extinction is negligible, to demonstrate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Renae E. Wall , Mukremin Kilic , P. Bergeron , Nathan D. Leiphart

We have identified 109 White Dwarf (WD) - M dwarf pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with g < 20th magnitude. For each system we determined the temperature of the WD primary and the spectral type of the M dwarf secondary. Using…

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

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…

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

Optical spectroscopic observations of white dwarf stars selected from catalogs based on the Gaia DR2 database reveal nine new gaseous debris disks that orbit single white dwarf stars, about a factor of two increase over the previously known…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Carl Melis , B. Klein , A. E. Doyle , A. J. Weinberger , B. Zuckerman , P. Dufour

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

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…

In this study, colour-magnitude relations (CMRs) for DA-type white dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometric system were investigated. For this purpose, the SDSS data for 20,247 white dwarf stars, as provided in the study by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-01 O. Caliskan , S Gokmen

We use the data provided by the Gaia Early Data Release 3 to search for a highly-complete volume-limited sample of unresolved binaries consisting of a white dwarf and a main sequence companion (i.e. WDMS binaries) within 100pc. We select…

In this paper, we present corrections to the spectroscopic parameters of DB and DBA white dwarfs with -10.0 < log(H/He) < -2.0, 7.5 < log(g) < 9.0 and 12000 K < T_eff < 34000 K, based on 282 3D atmospheric models calculated with the CO5BOLD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-26 Elena Cukanovaite , Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay , Pierre Bergeron , Bernd Freytag , Hans-Günter Ludwig , Matthias Steffen

We search for photometric variability in more than 23,000 known and candidate white dwarfs, the largest ultraviolet survey compiled for a single study of white dwarfs. We use gPhoton, a publicly available calibration/reduction pipeline, to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Dominick M. Rowan , Michael A. Tucker , Benjamin J. Shappee , J. J. Hermes

White dwarfs carry information on the structure and evolution of the Galaxy, especially through their luminosity function and initial-to-final mass relation. Very cool white dwarfs provide insight into the early ages of each population.…