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Following an outburst in 2001 July, the UV flux of WZ Sge has declined slowly toward pre-outburst levels. Here, we describe new 1150-1710 Angstrom HST/STIS spectra of WZ Sge obtained between 2002 April and 2003 March to follow the decline.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Knox S. Long , Edward M. Sion , Boris T. Gaensicke , Paula Szkody

The mean pulsation period of ZZ Ceti stars increases with decreasing effective temperature as we traverse from the blue to the red edge of the instability strip. This well-established correlation between the mean period and spectroscopic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anjum S. Mukadam , M. H. Montgomery , A. Kim , D. E. Winget , S. O. Kepler , J. C. Clemens

An initial assessment is made of white dwarf and hot subdwarf stars observed in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In a small area of sky (190 square degrees), observed much like the full survey will be, 269 white dwarfs and 56 hot subdwarfs are…

The internal structures of pulsating white dwarfs can be explored only with asteroseismology. Time series photometric observations were made for the pulsating DA white dwarf (ZZ Ceti star) WD~0246+326 during 9 nights in 2014 with a bi-site…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-02 Chun Li , Jianning Fu , Lester Fox-Machado , Jie Su , Fangfang Chen

We report the detection of nonradial g-mode oscillations in the DA white dwarfs HS1039+4112 (B=15.9) and HE1429-0343 (B=15.8) from time-series photometry made at the Loiano 1.5 m telescope. The two stars were previously selected as probable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Silvotti , B. Voss , I. Bruni , D. Koester , D. Reimers , R. Napiwotzki , D. Homeier

We analyze the stability of g-modes in variable white dwarfs with hydrogen envelopes. In these stars, the radiative layer contributes to mode damping because its opacity decreases upon compression and the amplitude of the Lagrangian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-08 Peter Goldreich , Yanqin Wu

We aimed at collecting all known white dwarf pulsators with hydrogen-dominated atmospheres and list their main photometric and atmospheric parameters together with their pulsation periods and amplitudes observed at different epochs. For…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-25 Zs. Bognár , Á. Sódor

The spectroscopic sky survey carried out by the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) provides the largest stellar spectra library in the world until now. A large number of new DA white dwarfs had been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Jie Su , Jianning Fu , Guifang Lin , Fangfang Chen , Pongsak Khokhuntod , Chunqian Li

Asteroseismology is a powerful tool to infer the evolutionary status and chemical stratification of white dwarf (WD) stars, and to explore the physical processes that lead to their formation. This is particularly true for the variable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Leandro G. Althaus , Alejandro H. Córsico

We report the discovery of eleven new ZZ Cetis using telescopes at OPD (Observat\'orio do Pico dos Dias/LNA) in Brazil, the 4.1 m SOAR (Southern Astrophysical Research) telescope at Cerro Pachon, Chile, and the 2.1 m Otto Struve telescope…

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 analysis of 14 periodograms of EZ Lyn for the data spaced over 565 d in 2012--2014 (2-3.5 yr after 2010 outburst) yielded the existence of the stable signals around 100 c/d and three signals around 310 c/d, 338 c/d and 368 c/d (the…

We present 16 new, and confirm 7 previously identified, DA white dwarfs in the Kepler field through ground-based spectroscopy with the Hale 200", Kitt Peak 4-meter, and Bok 2.3-meter telescopes. Using atmospheric models we determine their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-18 T. F. Doyle , S. B. Howell , V. Petit , S. Lepine

DA-type white dwarfs account for 80% of all white dwarfs and represent, for most of them, the ultimate outcome of the typical evolution of low-to-intermediate mass stars. Their internal chemical stratification is strongly marked by passed,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-09 S. Charpinet , N. Giammichele , P. Brassard , G. Fontaine , P. Bergeron , W. Zong , V. Van Grootel , A. S. Baran

Hydrogen atmosphere pulsating white dwarfs, also known as DAV stars, are the most abundant type of pulsating white dwarfs. High-temperature DAV stars exhibit in general a small number of pulsation modes and stable frequencies. G132-12 is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-08 Wen-Chao Su , Jian-Ning Fu , Jian-Xing Chen , Lester Fox-Machado , Shi-Jie Zhao , Carmen Ayala-Loera , Jiang-Tao Wang , Yang Pan

We report the discovery of fourteen new ZZ Cetis with the 4.1m Southern Astrophysical Research telescope, at Cerro Pachon, in Chile. The candidates were selected from the SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) DA white dwarf stars with Teff…

(Abridged) The Cataclysmic Variable (CV) population harbors a diverse range of donor stars and accreting white dwarfs (WDs). A range of WD masses is expected, from low mass Helium core WDs, to massive WDs which have previously accreted at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Phil Arras , Dean M. Townsley , Lars Bildsten

The Tsinghua University-Ma Huateng Telescope for Survey (TMTS) has been constantly monitoring the northern sky since 2020 in search of rapidly variable stars. To find variable white dwarfs (WDs), the TMTS catalog is cross-matched with the…

We present a dedicated search for new pulsating helium-atmosphere (DBV) white dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using the McDonald 2.1m Otto Struve Telescope. In total we observed 55 DB and DBA white dwarfs with spectroscopic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Zachary P. Vanderbosch , J. J. Hermes , Don E. Winget , Michael H. Montgomery , Keaton J. Bell , Atsuko Nitta , S. O. Kepler

Archival data from the WISE satellite reveals infrared flux variations of tens of per cent around numerous dusty white dwarfs. Data spanning more than seven years reveal more than half of known systems are varying in the 3.4 micron band,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Andrew Swan , Jay Farihi , Thomas G. Wilson