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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has validated and made publicly available its Second Data Release. This data release consists of 3324 square degrees of five-band (u g r i z) imaging data with photometry for over 88 million unique objects,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Abazajian et al.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will carry out a digital photometric and spectroscopic survey over pi steradians in the northern Galactic cap. An array of CCD detectors used in drift-scan mode will image the sky in five passbands to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jon Loveday , Jeff Pier

We present a catalog of 8545 and 19,257 unique DA white dwarfs observed in SDSS Data Release 19 and previous SDSS data releases, respectively. This is the largest catalog of both spectroscopic and photometric measurements of DA white dwarfs…

Our knowledge of the magnetism in white dwarfs is based on an observational dataset that is biased in favour of stars with very strong magnetic fields. Most of the field measurements available in the literature have a relatively low…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 Stefano Bagnulo , John D. Landstreet

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is making a multi-colour, three dimensional map of the nearby Universe. The survey is in two parts. The first part is imaging one quarter of the sky in five colours from the near ultraviolet to the near…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jon Loveday

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

Magnetic fields can play an important role in stellar evolution. Among white dwarfs, the most common stellar remnant, the fraction of magnetic systems is more than 20 per cent. The origin of magnetic fields in white dwarfs, which show…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Ingrid Pelisoli , M. Dorsch , U. Heber , B. Gänsicke , S. Geier , T. Kupfer , P. Németh , S. Scaringi , V. Schaffenroth

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 optical spectroscopy and near-infrared photometry of 57 faint ($g= 19-22$) high proper motion white dwarfs identified through repeat imaging of $\approx3100$ square degrees of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey footprint by Munn et al.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Kyra Dame , A. Gianninas , Mukremin Kilic , Jeffrey A. Munn , Warren R. Brown , Kurtis A. Williams , Ted von Hippel , Hugh C. Harris

Wide binaries made up of two white dwarfs (WDs) receive far less attention than their tight counterparts. However, our tests using the binary population synthesis code {\tt StarTrack} indicate that, for any set of reasonable initial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jeff J. Andrews , Marcel A. Agüeros , Krzysztof Belczynski , Saurav Dhital , S. J. Kleinman , Andrew A. West

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

We report the discovery of a second field methane brown dwarf from the commissioning data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The object, SDSS J134646.45-003150.4 (SDSS 1346-00), was selected because of its very red color and stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 SDSS Collaboration , Zlatan I. Tsvetanov

We present a detailed analysis of 101 white dwarf-main sequence binaries (WDMS) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) for which multiple SDSS spectra are available. We detect significant radial velocity variations in 18 WDMS, identifying…

Using a machine learning (ML) method, we mine DB white dwarfs (DBWDs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release (DR) 12 and DR14. The ML method consists of two parts: feature extraction and classification. The least absolute…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 Xiao Kong , A-Li Luo , Xiang-Ru Li , You-Fen Wang , Yin-Bi Li , Jing-Kun Zhao

We report the discovery of a nearby, old, halo white dwarf candidate from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. SDSS J110217.48+411315.4 has a proper motion of 1.75 arcsec/year and redder optical colors than all other known featureless (type DC)…

We have conducted a survey of 61 southern white dwarfs searching for magnetic fields using Zeeman spectropolarimetry. Our objective is to obtain a magnetic field distribution for these objects and, in particular, to find white dwarfs with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Kawka , S. Vennes , G. D. Schmidt , D. T. Wickramasinghe , R. Koch

Carbon stars and DZ white dwarfs are two types of rare objects in the Galaxy. In this paper, we have applied the label propagation algorithm to search for these two types of stars from Data Release Eight (DR8) of the Sloan Digital Sky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-25 Jianmin Si , Ali Luo , Yinbi Li , Jiannan Zhang , Peng Wei , Yihong Wu , Fuchao Wu , Yongheng Zhao

We define an enhanced spectral classification scheme for M dwarf stars, and use it to derive spectral classification of 104 northern stars with proper motions larger than 0.5"/yr which we discovered in a survey of high proper motion stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sebastien Lepine , R. Michael Rich , Michael M. Shara

Context: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4 has provided spectra of several new PG 1159 stars and DO white dwarfs. This increase in known hot H-deficient compact objects significantly improves the statistics and helps to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. D. Huegelmeyer , S. Dreizler , D. Homeier , J. Krzesinski , K. Werner , A. Nitta , S. J. Kleinman

This paper describes the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), marking the completion of the original goals of the SDSS and the end of the phase known as SDSS-II. It includes 11663 deg^2 of imaging data, with most of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 K. Abazajian