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A Spectroscopic Census of Cluster White Dwarfs from DESI, LAMOST, and SDSS
David R. Miller, Jeremy Heyl, Huahui Yan +2
Gaia has substantially expanded the sample of candidate white dwarfs (WDs) in open clusters, but many remain without spectroscopic characterization. We leverage the increasingly ex…
Investigating the Observational Progenitor Mass Gap in the White Dwarf Initial-Final Mass Relation. I. Cluster Census and Characterization of the First White Dwarfs in the Gap
David R. Miller, Jeremy Heyl, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay
In recent years, Gaia has been the primary driver of the expansion of the white dwarf (WD) initial-final mass relation (IFMR) in open clusters. The increased sample size has highli…
Escaped White Dwarf Candidates from Open Clusters
Huahui Yan, David R. Miller, Jingkun Zhao +2
Observations reveal a pronounced deficit of white dwarfs (WDs) in open clusters (OCs) relative to theoretical expectations, suggesting that a significant fraction of WDs may have e…
The white dwarf population of open clusters and their tidal tails. Tracers of contamination and stellar interactions
Vikrant V. Jadhav, Pavel Kroupa, David R. Miller +3
Recent Gaia studies have identified numerous open clusters (OCs) & tidal tail catalogues, enabling systematic searches for white dwarfs (WDs) associated with clusters & their exten…
The White Dwarf Initial-Final Mass Relation from Open Clusters in Gaia DR3
David R. Miller, Ilaria Caiazzo, Jeremy Heyl +6
The initial-final mass relation (IFMR) links a star's birth mass to the mass of its white dwarf (WD) remnant, providing key constraints on stellar evolution. Open clusters offer th…
A half-ring of ionized circumstellar material trapped in the magnetosphere of a white dwarf merger remnant
Andrei A. Cristea, Ilaria Caiazzo, Tim Cunningham +31
Many white dwarfs are observed in compact double white dwarf binaries and, through the emission of gravitational waves, a large fraction are destined to merge. The merger remnants…
An Extremely Massive White Dwarf Escaped From the Hyades Star Cluster
David R. Miller, Ilaria Caiazzo, Jeremy Heyl +5
We searched the Gaia DR3 database for ultramassive white dwarfs with kinematics consistent with having escaped the nearby Hyades open cluster, identifying three such candidates. Tw…
Reconstructing Nearby Young Clusters with Gaia EDR3
Jeremy Heyl, Ilaria Caiazzo, Harvey Richer +1
We searched through a seven-million cubic-parsec volume surrounding each of the four nearest young open clusters with ages from 40 to 80 Myr to identify both the current and past m…
The Ultramassive White Dwarfs of the Alpha Persei Cluster
David R. Miller, Ilaria Caiazzo, Jeremy Heyl +1
We searched through the entire Gaia EDR3 candidate white dwarf catalogue for stars with proper motions and positions that are consistent with the stars having escaped from the Alph…
Massive White Dwarfs in Young Star Clusters
Harvey B. Richer, Ilaria Caiazzo, Helen Du +6
We have carried out a search for massive white dwarfs (WDs) in the direction of young open star clusters using the Gaia DR2 database. The aim of this survey was to provide robust d…