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White dwarf planetary systems in the ultraviolet
Jamie Williams, Amy Bonsor, Boris Gänsicke +9
Almost every known planet host will evolve into a white dwarf, and the surviving planetary material will continue to orbit this stellar remnant. Asteroids perturbed onto star-grazi…
Detection of a weak magnetic field in the Balmer emission line white dwarf WDJ1653-1001
Abbigail Elms, Stefano Bagnulo, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay +8
The small DAHe and DAe spectral classes comprise isolated, hydrogen-dominated atmosphere white dwarfs that exhibit variable photometric flux and Balmer line emission. These mysteri…
Classifying white dwarfs from multi-object spectroscopy surveys with machine learning
James Munday, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Ingrid Pelisoli +5
With tens to hundreds of spectra of white dwarfs being taken each night from multi-object spectroscopic surveys, automated spectral classification is essential as part of efficient…
The Galactic White Dwarf Population
Santiago Torres, Roberto Raddi, Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas +15
The ESA Gaia mission has revolutionized our understanding of the white dwarf population, delivering an unprecedented census of these nearby remnants and revealing previously unseen…
The DBL Survey II: towards a mass-period distribution of double white dwarf binaries
James Munday, Ingrid Pelisoli, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay +14
Double white dwarf binaries are an important remnant of binary evolution as they are possible type Ia supernova progenitors and strong sources of gravitational waves in the low-fre…
A super-Chandrasekhar mass type Ia supernova progenitor at 49 pc set to detonate in 23 Gyr
James Munday, Ruediger Pakmor, Ingrid Pelisoli +9
Double white dwarf binaries are a leading explanation to the origin of type Ia supernovae, but no system exceeding the Chandrasekhar mass limit (1.4 M) has been found that…
Comparison of methods used to derive the Galactic star formation history from white dwarf samples
Emily K. Roberts, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Mairi W. O'Brien +4
We compare three methods of deriving the local Galactic star formation history, using as a benchmark the Gaia-defined 40 pc white dwarf sample, currently the largest volume complet…
A network of cooler white dwarfs as infrared standards for flux calibration
Abbigail K. Elms, Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay +6
The accurate flux calibration of observational data is vital for astrophysics and cosmology because absolute flux uncertainties of stellar standards propagate into scientific resul…
Constraints on Remnant Planetary Systems as a Function of Main-Sequence Mass with HST/COS
Lou Baya Ould Rouis, J. J. Hermes, Boris T. Gänsicke +8
As the descendants of stars with masses less than 8 M on the main sequence, white dwarfs provide a unique way to constrain planetary occurrence around intermediate-mass s…
The Gaia Ultracool Dwarf Sample -- IV. GTC/OSIRIS optical spectra of Gaia late-M and L dwarfs
W. J. Cooper, H. R. A. Jones, R. L. Smart +20
As part of our comprehensive, ongoing characterisation of the low-mass end of the main sequence in the Solar neighbourhood, we used the OSIRIS instrument at the 10.4 m Gran Telesco…
The DBL Survey I: discovery of 34 double-lined double white dwarf binaries
James Munday, Ingrid Pelisoli, P. E. Tremblay +8
We present the first discoveries of the double-lined double white dwarf (DBL) survey that targets over-luminous sources with respect to the canonical white dwarf cooling sequence a…
A Test of Spectroscopic Age Estimates of White Dwarfs using Wide WD+WD Binaries
Tyler M. Heintz, J. J. Hermes, P. -E. Tremblay +4
White dwarf stars have been used for decades as precise and accurate age indicators. This work presents a test of the reliability of white dwarf total ages when spectroscopic obser…
The Gaia white dwarf revolution
Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Antoine Bédard, Mairi W. O'Brien +4
This review highlights the role of the Gaia space mission in transforming white dwarf research. These stellar remnants constitute 5-7% of the local stellar population in volume, ye…
The 40 pc sample of white dwarfs from Gaia
Mairi W. O'Brien, P. -E. Tremblay, B. L. Klein +14
We present a comprehensive overview of a volume-complete sample of white dwarfs located within 40 pc of the Sun, a significant proportion of which were detected in Gaia Data Releas…
Main sequence companions to white dwarfs II: the age-activity-rotation relation from a sample of Gaia common proper motion pairs
A. Rebassa-Mansergas, J. Maldonado, R. Raddi +8
Magnetic activity and rotation are related to the age of low-mass main sequence stars. To further constrain these relations, we study a sample of 574 main sequence stars members of…
Discovery of the first resolved triple white dwarf
M. Perpinyà-Vallès, A. Rebassa-Mansergas, B. T. Gänsicke +4
We report the discovery of J1953-1019, the first resolved triple white dwarf system. The triplet consists of an inner white dwarf binary and a wider companion. Using Gaia DR2 photo…
Outbursts in two new cool pulsating DA white dwarfs
Keaton J. Bell, J. J. Hermes, M. H. Montgomery +9
The unprecedented extent of coverage provided by Kepler observations recently revealed outbursts in two hydrogen-atmosphere pulsating white dwarfs (DAVs) that cause hours-long incr…