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Tsinghua university-Ma Huateng Telescope for Survey (TMTS) aims to discover rapidly evolving transients by monitoring the northern sky. The TMTS catalog is cross-matched with the white dwarf (WD) catalog of Gaia EDR3, and light curves of…

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

We have investigated the relationship between the kinematics and mass of young (<3x10^8 years) white dwarfs using proper motions. Our sample is taken from the colour selected catalogues of SDSS (Eisenstein et al. 2006) and the Palomar-Green…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Christopher Wegg , E. Sterl Phinney

Seven ultra low-mass and small-radius white dwarfs (LSPM J0815+1633, LP 240-30, BD+20 5125B, LP 462-12, WD J1257+5428, 2MASS J13453297+4200437, and SDSS J085557.46+053524.5) have been recently identified with masses ranging from $\sim$0.02…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-10 Cheng-Jun Xia , Yong-Feng Huang , Hong-Bo Li , Lijing Shao , Ren-Xin Xu

We explore the evolution of hydrogen-rich and hydrogen-deficient white dwarf stars with masses between 1.012 and 1.307 Msun, and initial metallicity of Z=0.02. These sequences are the result of main sequence stars with masses between 8.8…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 G. R. Lauffer , A. D. Romero , S. O. Kepler

We present the kinematical properties, distribution of spectroscopic subtypes, stellar population subcomponents of the white dwarfs within 20 pc of the sun. We find no convincing evidence of halo white dwarfs in the total 20 pc sample of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Edward M. Sion , Jay B. Holberg , Terry D. Oswalt , George P. McCook , Richard Wasatonic

We present the first results from SWARMS (Sloan White dwArf Radial velocity data Mining Survey), an ongoing project to identify compact white dwarf (WD) binaries in the spectroscopic catalog of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The first object…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Carles Badenes , Fergal Mullally , Susan E. Thompson , Robert H. Lupton

We report the discovery of a new magnetic DA white dwarf (WD), WD0011-721, which is located within the very important 20pc volume-limited sample of the closest WDs to the Sun. This star has a mean field modulus <|B|> of 343 kG, and from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 John D. Landstreet , Stefano Bagnulo

We present the first detailed photometric and spectroscopic study of the white dwarfs (WDs) in the field of the ~225 Myr old (log tau_cl = 8.35) open cluster NGC 1039 (M34) as part of the ongoing Lick-Arizona White Dwarf Survey. Using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-22 Kate H. R. Rubin , Kurtis A. Williams , M. Bolte , Detlev Koester

The ESO Supernova Ia Progenitor Survey (SPY) took high-resolution spectra of more than 1000 white dwarfs and pre-white dwarfs. About two thirds of the stars observed are hydrogen-dominated DA white dwarfs. Here we present a catalog and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Koester , B. Voss , R. Napiwotzki , N. Christlieb , D. Homeier , T. Lisker , D. Reimers , U. Heber

We present a series of systematic abundance measurements for 25 hot DA white dwarfs in the temperature range ~20000-110000K, based on far-UV spectroscopy with STIS/GHRS on HST, IUE and FUSE. Using our latest heavy element blanketed non-LTE…

White dwarfs are one of the densest form of matter following neutron star and black holes. A typical white dwarf is as massive as our sun has radius comparable to the earth. This paper reviewed the Fermi gas model Equation of State of white…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Tousif Raza

For a long time, no hydrogen-deficient white dwarfs have been known that have effective temperature between 30 kK and < 45 kK, i.e. exceeding those of DB white dwarfs and having lower ones than DO white dwarfs. Therefore, this temperature…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 S. D. Huegelmeyer , S. Dreizler

The third data release of Gaia has provided low resolution spectra for ~100,000 white dwarfs (WDs) that, together with the excellent photometry and astrometry, represent an unrivalled benchmark for the study of this population. In this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 F. M. Jiménez-Esteban , S. Torres , A. Rebassa-Mansergas , P. Cruz , R. Murillo-Ojeda , E. Solano , C. Rodrigo , M. E. Camisassa

We present a comprehensive analysis of DB white dwarfs drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, based on model fits to $ugriz$ photometry and medium resolution spectroscopy from the SDSS. We also take advantage of the exquisite…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 C. Genest-Beaulieu , P. Bergeron

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has already doubled the number of spectroscopically identified white dwarfs. However, there remains a wealth of white dwarfs in the McCook & Sion catalog for which little or nothing is known. We have thus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Gianninas , P. Bergeron , P. Dufour

Spectroscopic observations of white dwarfs reveal that many of them are polluted by exoplanetary material, whose bulk composition can be uniquely probed this way. We present a spectroscopic and photometric analysis of the DA white dwarf…

We are searching for new He atmosphere white dwarf pulsators (DBVs) based on the newly found white dwarf stars from the spectra obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. DBVs pulsate at hotter temperature ranges than their better known…

The bright, nearby DA-type white dwarf (WD) 40 Eridani B is orbited by the M dwarf 40 Eri C, allowing determination of the WD's mass. Until recently, however, the mass depended on orbital elements determined four decades ago, and that mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Howard E. Bond , P. Bergeron , A. Bedard