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most citedDetection of the Temperature Dependence of the White Dwarf Mass-Radius Relation with Gravitational Redshifts

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astro-ph.SR2026

Searching for Massive Remnant Planetary System Hosts with White Dwarf Gaia XP Spectra

Lou Baya Ould Rouis, J. J. Hermes, Pierre Bergeron +5

Remnant planetary systems around massive white dwarfs () are intrinsically rare and remain poorly characterized. As the evolutionary endpoints of i…

astro-ph.SR2026

A Galactic intermediate-mass stripped star with a Wolf-Rayet-like wind

Johanna Müller-Horn, Kareem El-Badry, Andreas A. C. Sander +17

Binary interaction in massive stars is expected to produce a large population of intermediate-mass (- M) envelope-stripped stars, yet such objects have remained elusi…

astro-ph.SR2026

SRG/eROSITA X-ray selected cataclysmic variable candidates observed in SDSS-V DR20

J. Brink, A. D. Schwope, K. G. Pradeep +35

We report on the spectroscopic observations obtained during SDSS-V DR20 of accreting compact binaries (ACB), specifically the cataclysmic variables (CVs), that were identified as l…

astro-ph.SR2026

An Ultramassive White Dwarf with a Likely Oxygen-Neon Core

Stefan M. Arseneau, J. J. Hermes, Vedant Chandra +4

The core composition of ultramassive white dwarfs remains an open question in stellar evolution. The carbon content of white dwarf cores is critical to their role as progenitors of…

astro-ph.GA2026

The DECam MAGIC Survey Mapping the Ancient Galaxy in CaHK: Overview and Summary of Early Science

A. Chiti, A. Drlica-Wagner, A. B. Pace +42

We present the DECam Mapping the Ancient Galaxy in CaHK (MAGIC) survey, a 54-night NOIRLab Survey Program to image 5,000deg of the southern hemisphere using a meta…

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2025

White Dwarfs in Wide Binary Systems as Reliable Age Calibrators

Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas, Roberto Raddi, Anna F. Pala +13

Deriving precise stellar ages is a challenging task. Consequently, age-dependent relations - such as the age-metallicity and age-velocity dispersion relations of the Milky Way, or…

astro-ph.SR2025

Double White Dwarf Binaries in SDSS-V DR19 : A catalog of DA white dwarf binaries and constraints on the binary population

Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Vedant Chandra, Nadia L. Zakamska +17

The fifth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V) includes the first large-scale spectroscopic survey of white dwarfs (WDs) in the era of Gaia parallaxes. SDSS-V collects mult…

astro-ph.SR2025

Circumstellar interaction in the extreme white dwarf merger remnant ZTF\,J1901+1458: A new class of white dwarf merger remnants with X-ray emission

Aayush Desai, Ilaria Caiazzo, Stephane Vennes +31

Double degenerate white dwarf (WD) mergers can exhibit extreme magnetic fields exceeding G and rapid rotation, but their spectral-energy distributions and high-energy emis…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Resolution-Corrected White Dwarf Gravitational Redshifts Validate SDSS-V Wavelength Calibration and Enable Accurate Mass-Radius Tests

Stefan M. Arseneau, J. J. Hermes, Nadia L. Zakamska +7

Leveraging the large sample size of low-resolution spectroscopic surveys to constrain white dwarf stellar structure requires an accurate understanding of the shapes of hydrogen abs…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

A Large Catalog of DA White Dwarf Characteristics Using SDSS and Gaia Observations

Nicole R. Crumpler, Vedant Chandra, Nadia L. Zakamska +12

We present a catalog of 8545 and 19,257 unique DA white dwarfs observed in SDSS Data Release 19 and previous SDSS data releases, respectively. This is the largest catalog of both s…

astro-ph.SR2025

Double White Dwarf Binaries in SDSS-V DR19 : The discovery of a rare DA+DQ white dwarf binary with 31 hour orbital period

Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Vedant Chandra, Boris T. Gansicke +13

Binaries of two white dwarfs (WDs) are an important class of astrophysical objects that are theorized to lead to Type Ia supernovae and are also used to gain insight into complex p…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 9 cited

Detection of the Temperature Dependence of the White Dwarf Mass-Radius Relation with Gravitational Redshifts

Nicole R. Crumpler, Vedant Chandra, Nadia L. Zakamska +8

Models predict that the well-studied mass-radius relation of white dwarf stars depends on the temperature of the star, with hotter white dwarfs having larger masses at a given radi…

astro-ph.SR2024

The evolutionary history of GD1400, a white dwarf-brown dwarf binary

S. L. Casewell, M. R. Burleigh, R. Napiwotzki +6

GD1400AB was one of the first known white dwarfbrown dwarf binaries, and is the only one of these systems where the white dwarf is a ZZ Ceti pulsator. Here we present both radia…

astro-ph.SR2024

Supersensitive seismic magnetometry of white dwarfs

Nicholas Z. Rui, Jim Fuller, J. J. Hermes

The origin of magnetic fields in white dwarfs (WDs) remains mysterious. Magnetic WDs are traditionally associated with field strengths , set by the sensitivi…

astro-ph.SR2024

Cataclysmic variables from Sloan Digital Sky Survey -- V (2020-2023) identified using machine learning

Keith Inight, Boris T. Gänsicke, Axel Schwope +16

SDSS-V is carrying out a dedicated survey for white dwarfs, single and in binaries, and we report the analysis of the spectroscopy of 504 cataclysmic variables (CVs) and CV candida…

astro-ph.SR2023

Measuring The Mass-Radius Relation of White Dwarfs Using Wide Binaries

Stefan Arseneau, Vedant Chandra, Hsiang-Chih Hwang +10

Measuring the mass-radius relation of individual white dwarfs is an empirically challenging task that has been performed for only a few dozen stars. We measure the white dwarf mass…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 3 cited

Discovery of a Proto-White Dwarf with a Massive Unseen Companion

Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Vedant Chandra, Nadia L. Zakamska +8

We report the discovery of SDSS~J022932.28+713002.7, a nascent extremely low-mass (ELM) white dwarf (WD) orbiting a massive ( at 2 confidence) companion with a per…