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astro-ph.SR2026★ 1 cited

Constraints on White Dwarf Hydrogen Layer Masses Using Gravitational Redshifts

Stefan M. Arseneau, J. J. Hermes, Maria E. Camisassa +2

The hydrogen envelope is the outermost layer of a DA white dwarf; it makes up the entirety of the stellar photosphere, and yet its typical extent is difficult to model theoreticall…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 1 cited

Two-Dimensional Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability with Anisotropic Pressure

Shishir Biswas, Masaru Nakanotani, Dinshaw S. Balsara +2

The Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability occurs in multiple heliospheric (solar-wind stream interfaces, planetary magnetospheres, cometary tails, heliopause flanks) and interstellar (…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

The Effect of Magnetic Field Dissipation in the Inner Heliosheath: Reconciling Global Heliosphere Model and Voyager Data

Sergey D. Korolkov, Igor I. Baliukin, Merav Opher

Global ideal magnetohydrodynamic models of the heliosphere typically predict a greatly exaggerated magnetic field pile-up in the inner heliosheath (IHS), the region between the ter…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

The Binary Fraction of Stars in the Dwarf Galaxy Ursa Minor via Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Tian Qiu, Wenting Wang, Sergey Koposov +45

We utilize multi-epoch line-of-sight velocity measurements from the Milky Way Survey of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to estimate the binary fraction for member stars in…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 8 cited

PENELLOPE VII: Revisiting empirical relations to measure accretion luminosity

E. Fiorellino, J. M. Alcalá, C. F. Manara +10

The accretion luminosity (Lacc) in young, low-mass stars is crucial for understanding stellar formation, but direct measurements are often hindered by limited spectral coverage and…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Resolution-Corrected White Dwarf Gravitational Redshifts Validate SDSS-V Wavelength Calibration and Enable Accurate Mass-Radius Tests

Stefan M. Arseneau, J. J. Hermes, Nadia L. Zakamska +7

Leveraging the large sample size of low-resolution spectroscopic surveys to constrain white dwarf stellar structure requires an accurate understanding of the shapes of hydrogen abs…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

A hot white dwarf merger remnant revealed by an ultraviolet detection of carbon

Snehalata Sahu, Antoine Bédard, Boris T. Gänsicke +7

Atmospheric carbon has been detected in the optical spectra of six hydrogen-rich ultra-massive white dwarfs, revealing large carbon abundances (log C/H > 0.5) attributable to th…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

A Large Catalog of DA White Dwarf Characteristics Using SDSS and Gaia Observations

Nicole R. Crumpler, Vedant Chandra, Nadia L. Zakamska +12

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 s…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 42 cited

The JWST Weather Report from the Nearest Brown Dwarfs I: multi-period JWST NIRSpec + MIRI monitoring of the benchmark binary brown dwarf WISE 1049AB

Beth A. Biller, Johanna M. Vos, Yifan Zhou +22

We report results from 8 hours of JWST/MIRI LRS spectroscopic monitoring directly followed by 7 hours of JWST/NIRSpec prism spectroscopic monitoring of the benchmark binary brown d…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 12 cited

Magnetic Fields of M Dwarfs from the Pleiades Open Cluster

Fabio Wanderley, Katia Cunha, Oleg Kochukhov +10

Average magnetic field measurements are presented for 62 M-dwarf members of the Pleiades open cluster, derived from Zeeman-enhanced Fe I lines in the H-band. An MCMC methodology wa…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 11 cited

Interstellar Neutral Hydrogen in the Heliosphere: New Horizons Observations in the Context of Models

P. Swaczyna, M. Bzowski, K. Dialynas +12

Interstellar neutral (ISN) hydrogen is the most abundant species in the outer heliosheath and the very local interstellar medium (VLISM). Charge exchange collisions in the outer he…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 12 cited

Measuring White Dwarf Variability from Sparsely Sampled Gaia DR3 Multi-Epoch Photometry

Maya Steen, J. J. Hermes, Joseph A. Guidry +5

White dwarf stars are ubiquitous in the Galaxy, and are essential to understanding stellar evolution. While most white dwarfs are photometrically stable and reliable flux standards…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 16 cited

Flares hunting in hot subdwarf and white dwarf stars from Cycles 1-5 of TESS photometry

Keyu Xing, Weikai Zong, Roberto Silvotti +9

Stellar flares are critical phenomena on stellar surfaces, which are closely tied to stellar magnetism. While extensively studied in main-sequence (MS) stars, their occurrence in e…

astro-ph.SR2024

The Morphology of Asteroidal Dust Around White Dwarf Stars: Optical and Near-infrared Pulsations in G29-38

T. von Hippel, J. Farihi, J. L. Provencal +20

More than 36 years have passed since the discovery of the infrared excess from circumstellar dust orbiting the white dwarf G29-38, which at 17.5 pc it is the nearest and brightest…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 3 cited

Discovery of a Proto-White Dwarf with a Massive Unseen Companion

Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Vedant Chandra, Nadia L. Zakamska +8

We report the discovery of SDSS~J022932.28+713002.7, a nascent extremely low-mass (ELM) white dwarf (WD) orbiting a massive ( at 2 confidence) companion with a per…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 17 cited

A rotating white dwarf shows different compositions on its opposite faces

Ilaria Caiazzo, Kevin B. Burdge, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay +35

White dwarfs, the extremely dense remnants left behind by most stars after their death, are characterised by a mass comparable to that of the Sun compressed into the size of an Ear…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 20 cited

Brightness and mass accretion rate evolution during the 2022 burst of EX~Lupi

F. Cruz-Sáenz de Miera, Á. Kóspál, P. Ábrahám +18

EX Lupi is the prototype by which EXor-type outbursts were defined. It has experienced multiple accretion-related bursts and outbursts throughout the last decades, whose study have…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 10 cited

An Eclipsing 47 minute Double White Dwarf Binary at 400 pc

James Munday, P. -E. Tremblay, J. J. Hermes +20

We present the discovery of the eclipsing double white dwarf (WD) binary WDJ 022558.21-692025.38 that has an orbital period of 47.19 min. Following identification with the Transiti…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 7 cited

Correlation between the optical veiling and accretion properties: A case study of the classical T Tauri star DK Tau

M. Nelissen, A. Natta, P. McGinnis +3

Classical T Tauri stars (cTTs) accrete from their circumstellar disk. The material falls onto the stellar surface, producing an accretion shock, which generates veiling in a star's…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 9 cited

An emerging and enigmatic spectral class of isolated DAe white dwarfs

Abbigail K. Elms, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Boris T. Gänsicke +9

Two recently discovered white dwarfs, WDJ041246.84754942.26 and WDJ165335.21100116.33, exhibit H and H Balmer line emission similar to stars in the emerging DAHe class,…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 11 cited

Wide binaries demonstrate the consistency of rotational evolution between open cluster and field stars

David Gruner, Sydney A. Barnes, Kenneth A. Janes

Gyrochronology enables the derivation of ages of late-type main sequence stars based on their rotation periods and a mass proxy, such as color. It has been explored in open cluster…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 6 cited

Discovery of Dipolar Chromospheres in Two White Dwarfs

J. Farihi, J. J. Hermes, S. P. Littlefair +3

This paper reports the ULTRACAM discovery of dipolar surface spots in two cool magnetic white dwarfs with Balmer emission lines, while a third system exhibits a single spot, simila…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 4 cited

Trajectories of Coronal Mass Ejection from Solar-type Stars

Fabian Menezes, Adriana Valio, Yuri Netto +3

The Sun and other solar-type stars have magnetic fields that permeate their interior and surface, extends through the interplanetary medium, and is the main driver of stellar activ…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 10 cited

Two New White Dwarfs With Variable Magnetic Balmer Emission Lines

Joshua S. Reding, J. J. Hermes, J. C. Clemens +2

We report the discovery of two apparently isolated stellar remnants that exhibit rotationally modulated magnetic Balmer emission, adding to the emerging DAHe class of white dwarf s…