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most citedWhite dwarf and subdwarf stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 14

133 citations · 492 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Intermediate-mass runaway and hypervelocity star candidates in DESI DR1

Aakash Bhat, Matti Dorsch, Ulrich Heber +2

Runaway stars ejected from the Galactic disc span a range of velocities, with two extreme regimes of particular interest. Hyper-runaway stars reach velocities approaching the local…

astro-ph.SR2026

V407 Vul: a triple star system with an AM CVn detectable by gravitational wave observatories

James Munday, Antonio C. Rodriguez, Nicole Reindl +23

The AM CVn class includes mass transferring, ultra-compact double white dwarf binaries with orbital periods on the timescale of minutes. A long-standing puzzle is that none of the…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 3 cited

Hot subdwarf stars from the Hamburg Quasar Survey

Ulrich Heber, Lennard Kufleitner, Matti Dorsch +4

Hot subluminous stars (sdO/B) are evolved low mass stars originating from red giants that lost their envelope almost entirely. The multitude of observed phenomena imply that severa…

astro-ph.SR2024

Three new hot hydrogen-deficient pre-white dwarfs

Klaus Werner, Nicole Reindl, Max Pritzkuleit +1

We have detected three new hydrogen-deficient (H < 0.001 mass fraction) pre-white dwarfs (WDs) with helium-dominated atmospheres. The first object is a relatively cool PG1159 star…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

Probing the inner Galactic Halo with blue horizontal branch stars: Gaia DR3 based catalogue with atmospheric and stellar parameters

Richard Culpan, Matti Dorsch, Stephan Geier +4

Context. Stars that are found on the blue horizontal-branch (BHB) have evolved from low-mass stars that have completed their core hydrogen burning main sequence stage and have unde…

astro-ph.SR2024

A comprehensive search for hot subdwarf stars using Gaia and TESS I. Pulsating hot subdwarf B stars

Murat Uzundag, Jurek Krzesinski, Ingrid Pelisoli +4

Hot subdwarf B (sdB) stars are evolved, subluminous, helium-burning stars, most likely formed when red-giant stars lose their hydrogen envelope via interactions with close companio…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 76 cited

The population of hot subdwarf stars studied with Gaia -- IV. Catalogues of hot subluminous stars based on Gaia EDR3

Richard Culpan, Stephan Geier, Ingrid Pelisoli +3

In light of substantial new discoveries of hot subdwarfs by ongoing spectroscopic surveys and the availability of the Gaia mission Early Data Release 3 (EDR3), we compiled new rele…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 38 cited

White dwarf and subdwarf stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16

S. O. Kepler, Detlev Koester, Ingrid Pelisoli +2

White dwarfs are the end state of the evolution of more than 97% of all stars, and therefore carry information on the structure and evolution of the Galaxy through their luminosity…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 10 cited

Confirming new white dwarf-ultracool dwarf binary candidates

Miriam Hogg, Sarah Casewell, Graham Wynn +8

We present the results of a study to discover prospective new white dwarf-L dwarf binaries as identified by their near-infrared excesses in the UKIDSS catalogue. We obtained optica…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 47 cited

Formation of sdB-stars via common envelope ejection by substellar companions

M. Kramer, F. R. N. Schneider, S. T. Ohlmann +4

Common envelope (CE) phases in binary systems where the primary star reaches the tip of the red giant branch are discussed as a formation scenario for hot subluminous B-type (sdB)…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 87 cited

Population of hot subdwarf stars studied with Gaia III. Catalogue of known hot subdwarf stars: Data Release 2

S. Geier

In light of substantial new discoveries of hot subdwarfs by ongoing spectroscopic surveys and the availability of new all-sky data from ground-based photometric surveys and the Gai…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 133 cited

White dwarf and subdwarf stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 14

S. O. Kepler, Ingrid Pelisoli, Detlev Koester +6

White dwarfs carry information on the structure and evolution of the Galaxy, especially through their luminosity function and initial-to-final mass relation. Very cool white dwarfs…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 57 cited

Hot subdwarf stars in close-up view - II. Rotational properties of single and wide binary subdwarf B stars

S. Geier, U. Heber

Subluminous B stars (sdBs) form the extremely hot end of the horizontal branch and are therefore related to the blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars. While the rotational properties…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 40 cited

Multi-object spectroscopy of stars in the CoRoT fields I: Early-type stars in the CoRoT-fields IRa01, LRa01, LRa02

D. Sebastian, E. W. Guenther, V. Schaffenroth +5

Observations of giant stars indicate that the frequency of giant planets is much higher for intermediate-mass stars than for solar-like stars. Up to now all known planets of giant…