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astro-ph.SR2026

A Comprehensive Study of the Magnetic White Dwarfs in DESI DR1

Adam Moss, Pierre Bergeron, Mukremin Kilic +2

As the end point of stellar evolution for most stars, white dwarfs offer powerful insight into stellar magnetism. Multiple formation channels are required to explain the observed p…

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

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

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

Discovery of the richest pulsating ultra-massive white dwarf

Francisco C. De Geronimo, Murat Uzundag, Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas +5

The discovery of pulsations in ultra-massive white dwarfs can help to probe their interiors and unveil their core composition and crystallized mass fraction through asteroseismic t…

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

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★ 2 cited

White Dwarf Merger Remnants: The DAQ Subclass

Mukremin Kilic, Pierre Bergeron, Simon Blouin +3

Four years after the discovery of a unique DAQ white dwarf with a hydrogen-dominated and carbon-rich atmosphere, we report the discovery of four new DAQ white dwarfs, including two…

astro-ph.SR2024

The Morphology of Asteroidal Dust Around White Dwarf Stars: Optical and Near-infrared Pulsations in G29-38

T. von Hippel, J. Farihi, J. L. Provencal +20

More than 36 years have passed since the discovery of the infrared excess from circumstellar dust orbiting the white dwarf G29-38, which at 17.5 pc it is the nearest and brightest…

astro-ph.SR2023

Discovery of a Magnetic Double-Faced DBA White Dwarf

Adam Moss, P. Bergeron, Mukremin Kilic +4

We report the discovery of spectroscopic variations in the magnetic DBA white dwarf SDSS J091016.43+210554.2. Follow-up time-resolved spectroscopy at the Apache Point Observatory (…