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Hot DQ white dwarfs constitute a new class of white dwarf stars, uncovered recently within the framework of the SDSS project. Recently, three hot DQ white dwarfs have been reported to exhibit photometric variability with periods compatible…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. H. Córsico , A. D. Romero , L. G. Althaus , E. García-Berro

We present high-speed photometric observations of ZZ Ceti white dwarf candidates drawn from the spectroscopic survey of bright DA stars from the Villanova White Dwarf Catalog by Gianninas et al., and from the recent spectroscopic survey of…

We report photometry and spectroscopy of the novalike variable DW Cancri. The spectra show the usual broad H and He emission lines, with an excitation and continuum slope characteristic of a moderately high accretion rate. A radial-velocity…

We report results of optical identification and multi-wavelength study of a new polar-type magnetic cataclysmic variable (MCV), SRGA J213151.5+491400, discovered by Spectrum Roentgen-Gamma ($SRG$) observatory in the course of the all-sky…

Binary evolution theory predicts that accreting white dwarfs with sub-stellar companions dominate the Galactic population of cataclysmic variables (CVs). In order to test these predictions, it is necessary to identify these systems, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 J. V. Hernandez Santisteban , C. Knigge , M. L. Pretorius , M. Sullivan , B. Warner

The 2dF QSO survey is a spectroscopic survey of 48,000 point-sources selected by colour with magnitudes in the range 18.35 < B < 20.95. Amongst QSOs, white dwarfs, narrow-line galaxies and other objects are some cataclysmic variables (CVs).…

XMM-Newton observations of the accreting, pulsating white dwarf in the quiescent dwarf nova GW Librae were conducted to determine if the non-radial pulsations present in previous UV and optical data affect the X-ray emission. The non-radial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Eric J. Hilton , Paula Szkody , Anjum Mukadam , Koji Mukai , Coel Hellier , Liza van Zyl , Lee Homer

We report the discovery of an isolated white dwarf with a spin period of 70 s. We obtained high speed photometry of three ultramassive white dwarfs within 100 pc, and discovered significant variability in one. SDSS J221141.80+113604.4 is a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Mukremin Kilic , Alekzander Kosakowski , Adam G. Moss , P. Bergeron , Annamarie A. Conly

We present results of observations and analysis of five WZ-type dwarf novae: SDSS J080434.20+510349.2, SDSS J102146.44+234926.3, V1108 Her, ASAS J0025 and WZ Sge in 3 - 7 years after their outbursts. We found: 1) the observational evidences…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-15 E. Pavlenko , O. Antoniuk , K. Antoniuk , M. Andreev , D. Samsonov , A. Baklanov , A. Golovin

We report on the Swift/XRT Deep Galactic Plane Survey discovery and multi-wavelength follow-up observations of a new intermediate polar Cataclysmic Variable, Swift J183920.1-045350. A 449.7 s spin period is found in Xmm-Newton and NuSTAR…

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…

We explore the observational appearance of the merger of a low-mass star with a white dwarf (WD) binary companion. We are motivated by Schreiber et al. (2016), who found that multiple tensions between the observed properties of cataclysmic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Brian D. Metzger , Yossef Zenati , Laura Chomiuk , Ken J. Shen , Jay Strader

A surprisingly large fraction (70%) of hot, carbon dominated atmosphere (DQ) white dwarfs are magnetic and/or photometrically variable on short timescales up to ~1000 s. However, here we show that the hot DQ magnetic white dwarf SDSS…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 K. A. Lawrie , M. R. Burleigh , P. Dufour , S. T. Hodgkin

We present photometry and spectroscopy for 27 pulsating hydrogen-atmosphere white dwarfs (DAVs, a.k.a. ZZ Ceti stars) observed by the Kepler space telescope up to K2 Campaign 8, an extensive compilation of observations with unprecedented…

We present an updated version of the spectroscopic catalogue of white dwarf-main sequence (WDMS) binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We identify 939 WDMS binaries within the data releases (DR) 9-12 of SDSS plus 40 objects…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 A. Rebassa-Mansergas , J. J. Ren , S. G. Parsons , B. T. Gaensicke , M. R. Schreiber , E. Garcia-Berro , X. -W. Liu , D. Koester

Ultra-massive hydrogen-rich (DA) white dwarfs (WD) are expected to have a substantial portion of their cores in a crystalline state at the effective temperatures characterizing the ZZ Ceti instability strip, as a result of Coulomb…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-18 Alejandro H. Córsico , Francisco C. De Gerónimo , María E. Camisassa , Leandro G. Althaus

The fifth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V) includes the first large-scale spectroscopic survey of white dwarfs (WDs) in the era of Gaia parallaxes. SDSS-V collects multiple exposures per target, making it ideal for binary…

Results of nonradial, nonadiabatic pulsation calculations on hydrogen-rich white dwarf models are presented. In contrast to earlier attempts, the modeling builds on hydrodynamically simulated convective surface layers supplemented with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alfred Gautschy , Hans-Günter Ludwig , Bernd Freytag

Recent years have witnessed the discovery of many low-mass ($\lesssim 0.45 M_{\odot}$) white dwarf (WD) stars --- expected to harbor He cores--- in the field of the Milky Way and in several galactic globular and open clusters. Recently,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-11 Alejandro H. Córsico , Leandro G. Althaus , Alejandra D. Romero

Measuring g-mode pulsations of isolated white dwarfs can reveal their interior properties to high precision. With a spectroscopic mass of ~0.51 M_{\odot} (log g = 7.82), the DAV white dwarf HS 1824+6000 is near the transition between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Justin D. R. Steinfadt , Lars Bildsten , Eran O. Ofek , Shri R. Kulkarni