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astro-ph.SR2026

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…

astro-ph.EP2026

Planetary atmospheric escape and disk formation around WDJ0914+1914

C. Villarreal D'Angelo, M. P. Ronco, M. R. Schreiber +3

The spectrum of the white dwarf WD J091405.30+191412.25 displays the absorption and double-peaked emission lines of the volatiles hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur. This unique characte…

astro-ph.IM2025

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…

astro-ph.IM2025

The Future of Evolved Planetary Systems

Roberto Raddi, Anna F. Pala, Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas +19

Understanding the formation, evolution, and chemical diversity of exoplanets are now central areas of astrophysics research. White dwarfs provide a uniquely sensitive laboratory fo…

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.IM2025

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…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

The evolutionary history of ultra-compact accreting binaries. I. Chemical abundances and formation channel of the eclipsing AM CVn system ZTF J225237.05-051917.4 from HST spectroscopy

W. Yu, A. F. Pala, T. Kupfer +33

AM Canum Venaticorum (AM CVn) stars are ultra-compact binary systems composed of a white dwarf (WD) primary accreting from a H-deficient donor. They are important as potential prog…

astro-ph.EP2025

Measurements of three exo-planetesimal compositions: a planetary core, a chondritic body, and an icy Kuiper belt analogue

Jamie T. Williams, Boris T. Gänsicke, Snehalata Sahu +6

The study of planetesimal debris accreted by white dwarfs offers unique insights into the composition of exoplanets. Using far-ultraviolet and optical spectroscopy, we have analyse…

astro-ph.SR2025

V498 Hya, a new candidate for a period bouncer Cataclysmic Variable

Gagik Tovmassian, Keith Inight, Anna Francesca Pala +5

V498 Hya (SDSS J084555.07+033929.2) was identified as a short-period cataclysmic variable (CV) by the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey (CRTS) in 2008. The superhump period was m…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

A ZTF Search for Circumstellar Debris Transits in White Dwarfs: Six New Candidates, one with Gas Disk Emission, identified in a Novel Metric Space

Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee, Zachary P. Vanderbosch, Mark A. Hollands +13

White dwarfs (WDs) showing transits from orbiting planetary debris provide significant insights into the structure and dynamics of debris disks. This is a rare class of objects wit…

astro-ph.EP2024

Simultaneous emission from dust and gas in the planetary debris orbiting a white dwarf

Laura K. Rogers, Christopher J. Manser, Amy Bonsor +11

There is increasing evidence for the presence and variability of circumstellar dust and gas around white dwarfs that are polluted with exoplanetary material, although the origin of…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

Expansion properties of the young supernova type Iax remnant Pa 30 revealed

Tim Cunningham, Ilaria Caiazzo, Nikolaus Z. Prusinski +14

The recently discovered Pa 30 nebula, the putative type Iax supernova remnant associated with the historical supernova of 1181 AD, shows puzzling characteristics that make it uniqu…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.SR2024

Rotation plays a role in the generation of magnetic fields in single white dwarfs

Mercedes S. Hernandez, Matthias R. Schreiber, John D. Landstreet +5

Recent surveys of close white dwarf binaries as well as single white dwarfs have provided evidence for the late appearance of magnetic fields in white dwarfs, and a possible genera…

astro-ph.SR2023

Asteroseismological analysis of the polluted ZZ Ceti star G29-38 with TESS

Murat Uzundag, Francisco C. De Gerónimo, Alejandro H. Córsico +15

G\,2938 (TIC~422526868) is one of the brightest () and closest (\,pc) pulsating white dwarfs with a hydrogen-rich atmosphere (DAV/ZZ Ceti class). It was obser…

astro-ph.SR2023

An HST COS ultra-violet spectroscopic survey of 311 DA white dwarfs.I. Fundamental parameters and comparative studies

Snehalata Sahu, Boris T. Gaensicke, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay +8

White dwarf studies carry significant implications across multiple fields of astrophysics, including exoplanets, supernova explosions, and cosmological investigations. Thus, accura…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 1 cited

Cataclysmic Variables from Sloan Digital Sky Survey V -- the search for period bouncers continues

K. Inight, Boris T. Gänsicke, A. Schwope +25

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

astro-ph.SR2023★ 16 cited

Systematic uncertainties in the characterisation of helium-dominated metal-polluted white dwarf atmospheres

Paula Izquierdo, Boris T. Gänsicke, Pablo Rodríguez-Gil +5

White dwarf photospheric parameters are usually obtained by means of spectroscopic or photometric analysis. These results are not always consistent with each other, with the publis…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 1 cited

XGAPS: a sub-arcsecond cross-match of Galactic Plane Surveys

S. Scaringi, M. Monguio, C. Knigge +5

We present a sub-arcsecond cross-match of Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) against the INT Galactic Plane Surveys (IGAPS) and the United Kingdom Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS). The res…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 20 cited

The White Dwarf Binary Pathways Survey -- IX. Three long period white dwarf plus subgiant binaries

S. G. Parsons, M. S. Hernandez, O. Toloza +8

Virtually all binaries consisting of a white dwarf with a non-degenerate companion can be classified as either close post-interaction systems (with orbital periods of a few days or…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 54 cited

white dwarfs within 40 pc III: spectroscopic observations of new candidates in the southern hemisphere

Mairi W. O'Brien, P. -E. Tremblay, N. P. Gentile Fusillo +31

We present a spectroscopic survey of 248 white dwarf candidates within 40 pc of the Sun; of these 244 are in the southern hemisphere. Observations were performed mostly with the Ve…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 32 cited

The White Dwarf Binary Pathways Survey -- VIII: a post common envelope binary with a massive white dwarf and an active G-type secondary star

M. S. Hernandez, M. R. Schreiber, S. G. Parsons +6

The white dwarf binary pathways survey is dedicated to studying the origin and evolution of binaries containing a white dwarf and an intermediate-mass secondary star of the spectra…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 6 cited

The C/N ratio from FUV spectroscopy as a constraint upon the past evolution of HS0218+3229

O. Toloza, Boris T. Gaensicke, Laura M. Guzman-Rincon +8

Some white dwarfs accreting from non-degenerate companions show anomalous carbon and nitrogen abundances in the photospheres of their stellar components which have been postulated…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 10 cited

Testing Lyman alpha emission line reconstruction routines at multiple velocities in one system

David J. Wilson, Allison Youngblood, Odette Toloza +6

The 1215.67A HI Lyman alpha emission line dominates the ultraviolet flux of low mass stars, including the majority of known exoplanet hosts. Unfortunately, strong attenuation by th…