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An HST COS ultra-violet spectroscopic survey of 311 DA white dwarfs.I. Fundamental parameters and comparative studies
Snehalata Sahu, Boris T. Gaensicke, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay +8
White dwarf studies carry significant implications across multiple fields of astrophysics, including exoplanets, supernova explosions, and cosmological investigations. Thus, accura…
The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation
Shoko Jin, Scott C. Trager, Gavin B. Dalton +212
WEAVE, the new wide-field, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope, will see first light in late 2022. WEAVE comprises a new 2-degree…
A young spectroscopic binary in a quintuple system part of the Local Association
Carlos Cardona Guillén, Nicolas Lodieu, Víctor J. S. Béjar +9
Double-lined spectroscopic binaries (SB2) allow us to determine a lower limit of the masses of their components directly to test stellar models. In this work, our aim is to derive…
Constraining the solar neighbourhood age-metallicity relation from white dwarf-main sequence binaries
A. Rebassa-Mansergas, J. Maldonado, R. Raddi +11
The age-metallicity relation is a fundamental tool for constraining the chemical evolution of the Galactic disc. In this work we analyse the observational properties of this relati…
White dwarfs with planetary remnants in the era of Gaia I: six emission line systems
N. P. Gentile Fusillo, C. J. Manser, Boris T. Gänsicke +17
White dwarfs with emission lines from gaseous debris discs are among the rarest examples of planetary remnant hosts, but at the same time they are key objects for studying the fina…
White dwarf pollution by hydrated planetary remnants: Hydrogen and Metals in WD J204713.76-125908.9
Matthew J. Hoskin, Odette Toloza, Boris T. Gänsicke +9
WD J204713.76-125908.9 is a new addition to the small class of white dwarfs with helium-dominated photospheres that exhibit strong Balmer absorption lines and atmospheric metal pol…
white dwarfs within 40 pc I: spectroscopic observations of new candidates
P. -E. Tremblay, M. A. Hollands, N. P. Gentile Fusillo +30
We present a spectroscopic survey of 230 white dwarf candidates within 40 pc of the Sun from the William Herschel Telescope and Gran Telescopio Canarias. All candidates were select…
An ultra-massive white dwarf with a mixed hydrogen-carbon atmosphere as a likely merger remnant
Mark A. Hollands, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Boris T. Gänsicke +11
White dwarfs are dense, cooling stellar embers consisting mostly of carbon and oxygen, or oxygen and neon (with a few percent carbon) at higher initial stellar masses. These stella…
Astro 2020 Science White Paper: Evolved Planetary Systems around White Dwarfs
Boris Gaensicke, Martin Barstow, Amy Bonsor +25
Practically all known planet hosts will evolve into white dwarfs, and large parts of their planetary systems will survive this transition - the same is true for the solar system be…
Exploring the Cosmic Evolution of Habitability with Galaxy Merger Trees
E. R. Stanway, M. J. Hoskin, M. A. Lane +4
We combine inferred galaxy properties from a semi-analytic galaxy evolution model incorporating dark matter halo merger trees with new estimates of supernova and gamma ray burst ra…