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Plato benchmark stars I. The initial benchmark sample
T. Merle, P. F. L. Maxted, O. L. Creevey +22
The ESA PLATO mission aims to detect and characterise Earth-size exoplanets orbiting bright, late-type stars using high-precision photometry and asteroseismology. Precise stellar p…
The white dwarf binary pathways survey - XI. The Gaia-GALEX UV Excess Sample for systems within 350 pc
James A. Garbutt, S. G. Parsons, N. Gentile Fusillo +9
White dwarfs (WDs) with F, G or K type binary companions are the last common ancestor to a zoo of exotic phenomena. Finding a clean sample of such systems is difficult, as WDs in s…
WEAVE imaging spectroscopy of NGC 6720: an iron bar in the Ring
R. Wesson, J. E. Drew, M. J. Barlow +23
We present spatially resolved spectroscopic observations of the planetary nebula NGC 6720, the Ring Nebula, taken during the science verification phase of WEAVE, a new instrument m…
White Dwarf Binaries: Probes of Future Astrophysics
Anna F. Pala, Roberto Raddi, Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas +25
White dwarf binaries are fundamental astrophysical probes. They represent ideal laboratories to test the models of binary evolution, which also apply to the sources of gravitationa…
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…
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…
Uniformly-calibrated VPHAS+ photometry in the third quadrant of the Galactic plane
J. E. Drew, R. Greimel, J. Eislöffel +2
The southern Galactic plane has been mapped at optical wavelengths and at under one-arcsecond angular resolution by the VST Photometric Ha Survey of the Galactic plane and bulge (V…
Spectroscopic and kinematic analyses of a warm survivor of a D6 supernova
Mark A. Hollands, Ken. J. Shen, Roberto Raddi +3
SDSSJ163712.21+363155.9 is a candidate hyper-runaway star, first identified from its unusual spectrum in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which exhibits oxygen, magnesium, and silicon…
A magnitude-limited catalogue of unresolved white dwarf-main sequence binaries from Gaia DR3
Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas, Enrique Solano, Alex J. Brown +6
Binary stars containing a white dwarf and a main-sequence star, WDMS binaries, can be used to study a wide range of aspects of stellar astrophysics. We build a magnitude-limited sa…
Benchmark brown dwarfs -- I. A blue M2 + T5 wide binary and a probable young [M4 + M4] + [T7 + T8] hierarchical quadruple
Z. H. Zhang, F. Navarete, M. C. Galvez-Ortiz +13
Benchmark brown dwarfs in wide binary systems are crucial for characterizing substellar objects and calibrating atmospheric and evolutionary models. However, brown dwarf benchmarks…
Testing the mass-radius relation of white dwarfs in common proper motion pairs I.Hydrogen-dominated atmospheres
Roberto Raddi, Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas, Santiago Torres +6
The main goal of this work was to measure the masses and radii of white dwarfs that belong to widely separated, common proper motion binaries with non-degenerate companions. These…
Main sequence dynamo magnetic fields emerging in the white dwarf phase
Maria Camisassa, J. R. Fuentes, Matthias R. Schreiber +4
Recent observations of volume-limited samples of magnetic white dwarfs (WD) have revealed a higher incidence of magnetism in older WDs. Specifically, these studies indicate that ma…
Primeval very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs -- VIII. The first age benchmark L subdwarf, a wide companion to a halo white dwarf
Z. H. Zhang, R. Raddi, A. J. Burgasser +12
We report the discovery of five white dwarf + ultracool dwarf systems identified as common proper motion wide binaries in the Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars. The discoveries includ…
A spectroscopic and kinematic survey of fast hot subdwarfs
S. Geier, U. Heber, A. Irrgang +19
Hot subdwarfs (sdO/B) are the stripped helium cores of red giants formed by binary interactions. Close hot subdwarf binaries with massive white dwarf companions have been proposed…
Kinematic origin of white dwarfs in the solar neighborhood
Ainhoa Zubiaur, Roberto Raddi, Santiago Torres
Thanks to the recent space-borne mission Gaia, there is a nearly complete sample of white dwarfs up to about 100 parsecs from the Sun, which may have very diverse origins. We aim t…
The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) Science White Paper
Vincenzo Mainieri, Richard I. Anderson, Jarle Brinchmann +214
The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is proposed as a new facility dedicated to the efficient delivery of spectroscopic surveys. This white paper summarises the initial con…
A 500 pc volume-limited sample of hot subluminous stars I. Space density, scale height, and population properties
H. Dawson, S. Geier, U. Heber +25
We present the first volume-limited sample of spectroscopically confirmed hot subluminous stars out to 500 pc, defined using the accurate parallax measurements from the {\em Gaia}…
The white dwarf binary pathways survey -- X. Gaia orbits for known UV excess binaries
J. A. Garbutt, S. G. Parsons, O. Toloza +9
White dwarfs with a F, G or K type companion represent the last common ancestor for a plethora of exotic systems throughout the galaxy, though to this point very few of them have b…
J0526+5934: a peculiar ultra-short period double white dwarf
Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas, Mark Hollands, Steven G. Parsons +6
Ultra-short period compact binaries are important sources of gravitational waves, which include e.g. the progenitors of type Ia supernovae or the progenitors of merger episodes tha…
The Initial Mass Function Based on the Full-sky 20-pc Census of 3,600 Stars and Brown Dwarfs
J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Federico Marocco, Christopher R. Gelino +85
A complete accounting of nearby objects -- from the highest-mass white dwarf progenitors down to low-mass brown dwarfs -- is now possible, thanks to an almost complete set of trigo…
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…
The unusual planetary nebula nucleus in the Galactic open cluster M37 and six further hot white dwarf candidates
Klaus Werner, Nicole Reindl, Roberto Raddi +6
Planetary nebulae in Galactic open star clusters are rare objects; only three are known to date. They are of particular interest because their distance can be determined with high…
White dwarf spectral type-temperature distribution from Gaia-DR3 and the Virtual Observatory
S. Torres, P. Cruz, R. Murillo-Ojeda +6
The characterization of white dwarf atmospheres is crucial for accurately deriving stellar parameters such as effective temperature, mass, and age. We aim to classify the populatio…
Carbon-oxygen ultra-massive white dwarfs in general relativity
Leandro G. Althaus, Alejandro H. Córsico, María E. Camisassa +4
We employ the La Plata stellar evolution code, LPCODE, to compute the first set of constant rest-mass carbon-oxygen ultra-massive white dwarf evolutionary sequences for masses high…