Magnetic White Dwarfs from the SDSS II. The Second and Third Data Releases
Abstract
Fifty-two magnetic white dwarfs have been identified in spectroscopic observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) obtained between mid-2002 and the end of 2004, including Data Releases 2 and 3. Though not as numerous nor as diverse as the discoveries from the first Data Release, the collection exhibits polar field strengths ranging from 1.5MG to ~1000MG, and includes two new unusual atomic DQA examples, a molecular DQ, and five stars that show hydrogen in fields above 500MG. The highest-field example, SDSSJ2346+3853, may be the most strongly magnetic white dwarf yet discovered. Analysis of the photometric data indicates that the magnetic sample spans the same temperature range as for nonmagnetic white dwarfs from the SDSS, and support is found for previous claims that magnetic white dwarfs tend to have larger masses than their nonmagnetic counterparts. A glaring exception to this trend is the apparently low-gravity object SDSSJ0933+1022, which may have a history involving a close binary companion.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0505085,
title = {Magnetic White Dwarfs from the SDSS II. The Second and Third Data Releases},
author = {Karen M. Vanlandingham and Gary D. Schmidt and Daniel J. Eisenstein and Hugh C. Harris and Scott F. Anderson and Pat B. Hall and James Liebert and Donald P. Schneider and Nicole M. Silvestri and Gregory S. Stinson and Michael A. Wolfe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0505085},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
20 pages, 4 figures Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal