Analysis of the Hydrogen-rich Magnetic White Dwarfs in the SDSS
arXiv:0812.1942 · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/172/1/012047
Abstract
We have calculated optical spectra of hydrogen-rich (DA) white dwarfs with magnetic field strengths between 1 MG and 1000 MG for temperatures between 7000 K and 50000 K. Through a least-squares minimization scheme with an evolutionary algorithm, we have analyzed the spectra of 114 magnetic DAs from the SDSS (95 previously published plus 14 newly discovered within SDSS, and five discovered by SEGUE). Since we were limited to a single spectrum for each object we used only centered magnetic dipoles or dipoles which were shifted along the magnetic dipole axis. We also statistically investigated the distribution of magnetic-field strengths and geometries of our sample.
arXiv commentto appear in the proceedings of the 16th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, Barcelona, 2008
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