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We present a novel method to detect variable astrophysical objects and transient phenomena using anomalous excess scatter in repeated measurements from public catalogs of Gaia DR2 and Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) DR3 photometry. We first…

The third data release of Gaia has provided approximately 220 million low resolution spectra. Among these, about 100,000 correspond to white dwarfs. The magnitude of this quantity of data precludes the possibility of performing spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Enrique Miguel García-Zamora , Santiago Torres , Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas

We have exploited the very precise parallaxes, proper motions and photometry of \textit{Gaia}\, Data Release~2 to study white dwarf members of the Hyades star cluster. Gaia photometry and parallaxes for the eight DA white dwarfs confirmed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 M. Salaris , L. R. Bedin , .

We present the first grid of mean three-dimensional (3D) spectra for pure-hydrogen (DA) white dwarfs based on 3D model atmospheres. We use CO5BOLD radiation-hydrodynamics 3D simulations instead of the mixing-length theory for the treatment…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 P. -E. Tremblay , H. -G. Ludwig , M. Steffen , B. Freytag

We present HST spectroscopy for 45 cataclysmic variables (CVs), observed with HST/COS and HST/STIS. For 36 CVs, the white dwarf is recognisable through its broad Ly$\alpha$ absorption profile and we measure the white dwarf effective…

The second Gaia data release, DR2, contained radial velocities of stars with effective temperatures up to Teff = 6900 K. The third data release, Gaia DR3, extends this up to Teff = 14,500 K. We derive the radial velocities for hot stars…

The upcoming NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will obtain space-based uninterrupted light curves for a large sample of bright white dwarfs distributed across the entire sky, providing a very rich resource for…

White dwarfs in globular clusters offer additional possibilities to determine distances and ages of globular clusters, provided their spectral types and masses are known. We therefore started a project to obtain spectra of white dwarfs in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Moehler , D. Koester , M. Zoccali , F. R. Ferraro , U. Heber , R. Napiwotzki , A. Renzini

Modern large-scale surveys have allowed the identification of large numbers of white dwarfs. However, these surveys are subject to complicated target selection algorithms, which make it almost impossible to quantify to what extent the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Rebassa-Mansergas , X. -W. Liu , R. Cojocaru , H. -B. Yuan , S. Torres , E. Garcia-Berro , M. -X. Xiang , Y. Huang , D. Koester , Y. Hou , G. Li , Y. Zhang

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 measure apparent velocities (v_app) of absorption lines for 36 white dwarfs (WDs) with helium-dominated atmospheres -- 16 DBAs and 20 DBs -- using optical spectra taken for the European Southern Observatory SN Ia progenitor survey (SPY).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-17 Ross E. Falcon , D. E. Winget , Michael H. Montgomery , Kurtis A. Williams

We report the identification of 26 cool DZ white dwarfs that lie across and below the main sequence in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) u-g vs. g-r two-color diagram; 21 of these stars are new discoveries. The sample was identified by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 D. Koester , J. Girven , B. T. Gänsicke , P. Dufour

A 2.5 x 100 degree region along the celestial equator (Stripe 82) has been imaged repeatedly from 1998 to 2005 by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. A new catalogue of ~4 million light-motion curves, together with over 200 derived statistical…

To obtain a better statistics on the occurrence of magnetism among white dwarfs, we searched the spectra of the hydrogen atmosphere white dwarf stars (DAs) in the Data Release 7 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) for Zeeman splittings…

We present a photometric analysis of 19 DA and 13 DAO white dwarfs (WDs) with effective temperatures exceeding 60 kK, building on the spectral analysis reported in the first paper of this two-part study. By examining archival light curves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-19 Semih Filiz , Nicole Reindl , David Jones , Paulina Sowicka , Matti Dorsch , Thomas Rauch , Klaus Werner

A recent cross-correlation between the SDSS DR7 White Dwarf Catalog with the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer ($WISE$) all-sky photometry at 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 microns performed by Debes et al. (2011) resulted in the discovery of 52…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Sara D. Barber , Mukremin Kilic , Warren R. Brown , A. Gianninas

By two different methods, we show that LHS 4033 is an extremely massive white dwarf near its likely upper mass limit for destruction by unstable electron captures. From the accurate trigonometric parallax reported herein, the effective…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. C. Dahn , P. Bergeron , J. Liebert , H. C. Harris , S. K. Leggett

Usually, the determination of radial velocities of stars relies on the shift of spectral lines by the Doppler effect. Russel & Atkinson (1931) and Oort (1932) already noted that due to the large proper motion and parallax of the white dwarf…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-16 Stefan Jordan , Jos de Bruijne

We present an updated version of the spectroscopic white dwarf-main sequence (WDMS) binary catalogue from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). 395 new systems are serendipitous discoveries from the spectroscopic SDSSI/II Legacy targets. As…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Rebassa-Mansergas , A. Nebot Gomez-Moran , M. R. Schreiber , B. T. Gansicke , A. Schwope , J. Gallardo , D. Koester

The publications of Gaia DR2 and DR3 have brought major improvements in stellar astrometry and photometry, particularly regarding the description of the white dwarf sequence. Notably, Gaia DR2 enabled the detection of variability in white…