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astro-ph.SR2026

A Detailed Model Atmosphere Analysis of Cool White Dwarfs in DESI DR1

Mukremin Kilic, Pierre Bergeron, Simon Blouin +9

We present a detailed model atmosphere analysis of cool white dwarfs in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Data Release 1 (DESI DR1). Our sample includes 25,642 unique target…

astro-ph.SR2026

A Detailed Model Atmosphere Analysis of Hot White Dwarfs in DESI DR1

Mukremin Kilic, Pierre Bergeron, Adam Moss +6

We present a detailed model atmosphere analysis of hot white dwarfs in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1. Our sample includes 19,321 unique targets wit…

astro-ph.SR2026

White Dwarf Merger Remnants with Cooling Delays on the Q Branch Lack Strong Magnetism

Lou Baya Ould Rouis, J. J. Hermes, Joseph A. Guidry +8

A population of anomalous ultra-massive white dwarfs discovered with Gaia, often referred to as the Q branch, show high (multi-Gyr) cooling delays produced by exotic physical mecha…

astro-ph.SR2025

Multiperiodic pulsations of the unique DAQ white dwarf J0551+4135: insights into a merger remnant

Murat Uzundag, Mukremin Kilic, Francisco C. De Gerónimo +7

2MASS J05513444+4135297 (herafter J0551+4135) is the only pulsating DAQ white dwarf known with a carbon and hydrogen atmosphere. Its unusual atmospheric composition and kinematics…

astro-ph.SR2025

Neural Posterior Estimation for White Dwarf Spectroscopic Characterization

Olivier Vincent, Patrick Dufour, Pierre Bergeron

White dwarf spectroscopic characterization is entering a big data era, with the number of spectroscopically characterized white dwarfs expected to grow from 100,000 to over 3…

astro-ph.SR2025

The ZZ Ceti Instability Strip for The Most Massive White Dwarf Pulsators

Gracyn Jewett, Mukremin Kilic, Adam Moss +10

We present time-series photometry of 31 massive DA white dwarfs with within the ZZ Ceti instability strip from the Montreal White Dwarf Database 100 pc sampl…

astro-ph.SR2025

JWST imaging of omega Centauri: II. Evidence for a split white dwarf cooling sequence in the near-infrared

M. Scalco, M. Salaris, L. R. Bedin +11

We present a detailed analysis of the white dwarf cooling sequence (WD CS) in omega Centauri based on combined Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and JWST observations. Our analysis conf…

astro-ph.SR2025

An All-sky Survey of White Dwarf Merger Remnants: Far-UV is the Key

Mukremin Kilic, Pierre Bergeron, Warren R. Brown +5

The majority of merging white dwarfs leave behind a white dwarf remnant. Hot/warm DQ white dwarfs with carbon-rich atmospheres have high masses and unusual kinematics. All evidence…

astro-ph.SR2025

Magnetic White Dwarfs in the SDSS 100 pc Sample: Further Evidence of Two Formation Channels

Adam Moss, Mukremin Kilic, Pierre Bergeron +5

We conduct a model atmosphere analysis on all magnetic white dwarfs in the SDSS 100 pc sample. We have 163 magnetic targets in this sample, 87 of which are new discoveries, making…

astro-ph.SR2025

Asteroseismology of WD J004917.14-252556.81, the Most Massive Pulsating White Dwarf

O. Caliskan, M. Uzundag, M. Kilic +10

We present extensive follow-up time-series photometry of WD J00492525, the most massive pulsating white dwarf currently known with and $\log{\i…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

JWST Imaging of the Closest Globular Clusters -- V. The White Dwarfs Cooling Sequence of M4

L. R. Bedin, M. Libralato, M. Salaris +9

We combine infrared (IR) observations collected by the James Webb Space Telescope with optical deep images by the Hubble Space Telescope taken approximately 20 years earlier to com…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

The Emerging Class of Double-Faced White Dwarfs

Adam Moss, Mukremin Kilic, Pierre Bergeron +2

We report our findings on a spectroscopic survey of seven unresolved DA+DB binary white dwarf candidates. We have discovered extreme spectroscopic variations in one of these candid…

astro-ph.SR2024

The 100 pc White Dwarf Sample in the SDSS Footprint II. A New Look at the Spectral Evolution of White Dwarfs

Mukremin Kilic, Pierre Bergeron, Simon Blouin +5

We increase the spectroscopic completeness of the 100 pc white dwarf sample in the SDSS footprint with 840 additional spectra. Our spectroscopy is 86% complete for white dwarfs hot…

astro-ph.SR2024

The HST Large Programme on Omega Centauri -- VII. The white dwarf cooling sequence

M. Scalco, M. Salaris, L. Bedin +9

We present a study of the white dwarf (WD) cooling sequence (CS) in the globular cluster (GC) Omega Centauri, the primary goal of a dedicated Hubble Space Telescope (HST) programme…

astro-ph.SR2024

Massive White Dwarfs in the 100 pc Sample: Magnetism, Rotation, Pulsations, and the Merger Fraction

Gracyn Jewett, Mukremin Kilic, Pierre Bergeron +6

We present a detailed model atmosphere analysis of massive white dwarfs with and K in the Montreal White Dwarf Database 100 pc sample and…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 6 cited

Fundamental Tests of White Dwarf Cooling Physics with Wide Binaries

Manuel Barrientos, Mukremin Kilic, Pierre Bergeron +3

We present follow-up spectroscopy and a detailed model atmosphere analysis of 29 wide double white dwarfs, including eight systems with a crystallized C/O core member. We use state…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 5 cited

MagAO Imaging of Long-period Objects (MILO). II. A Puzzling White Dwarf around the Sun-like Star HD 11112

Timothy J. Rodigas, P. Bergeron, Amelie Simon +18

HD 11112 is an old, Sun-like star that has a long-term radial velocity (RV) trend indicative of a massive companion on a wide orbit. Here we present direct images of the source res…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 28 cited

Hubble Space Telescope observations of the Kepler-field cluster NGC 6819. I. The bottom of the white dwarf cooling sequence

L. R. Bedin, M. Salaris, J. Anderson +6

We use Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to reach the end of the white dwarf (WD) cooling sequence (CS) in the solar-metallicity open cluster NGC 6819. Our photometry and completeness t…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 20 cited

An Empirical Measure of the Rate of White Dwarf Cooling in 47 Tucanae

R. Goldsbury, J. Heyl, H. B. Richer +8

We present an empirical determination of the white dwarf cooling sequence in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Using spectral models, we determine temperatures for 887 objects from…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 126 cited

The Masses of Population II White Dwarfs

Jason S. Kalirai, D. Saul Davis, Harvey B. Richer +4

Globular star clusters are among the first stellar populations to have formed in the Milky Way, and thus only a small sliver of their initial spectrum of stellar types are still bu…