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A hidden population of white dwarfs with atmospheric carbon traces in the Gaia bifurcation
Maria Camisassa, Santiago Torres, Mark Hollands +4
The ESA Gaia space mission has revealed a bifurcation of the white dwarf (WD) sequence on the color magnitude diagram in two branches: A and B. While the A branch consists mostly o…
Two decades of optical timing of the shortest-period binary star system HM Cancri
James Munday, T. R. Marsh, Mark Hollands +15
The shortest-period binary star system known to date, RX J0806.3+1527 (HM Cancri), has now been observed in the optical for more than two decades. Although it is thought to be a do…
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…
Spectral analysis of ultra-cool white dwarfs polluted by planetary debris
Abbigail K. Elms, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Boris T. Gänsicke +5
We identify two ultra-cool ( K) metal-polluted (DZ) white dwarfs WDJ21474035 and WDJ19220233 as the coolest and second coolest DZ stars known to date w…
Velocity-imaging the rapidly precessing planetary disc around the white dwarf HE 1349-2305 using Doppler tomography
Christopher J. Manser, Erik Dennihy, Boris T. Gänsicke +11
The presence of planetary material in white dwarf atmospheres, thought to be accreted from a dusty debris disc produced via the tidal disruption of a planetesimal, is common. Appro…
A catalogue of white dwarfs in Gaia EDR3
N. P. Gentile Fusillo, P. -E. Tremblay, E. Cukanovaite +7
We present a catalogue of white dwarf candidates selected from Gaia early data release three (EDR3). We applied several selection criteria in absolute magnitude, colour, and Gaia q…
Constraining the solar neighbourhood age-metallicity relation from white dwarf-main sequence binaries
A. Rebassa-Mansergas, J. Maldonado, R. Raddi +11
The age-metallicity relation is a fundamental tool for constraining the chemical evolution of the Galactic disc. In this work we analyse the observational properties of this relati…
8.9-hr Rotation in the Partly Burnt Runaway Stellar Remnant LP 40-365 (GD 492)
J. J. Hermes, Odelia Putterman, Mark A. Hollands +5
We report the detection of 8.914-hr variability in both optical and ultraviolet light curves of LP 40-365 (also known as GD 492), the prototype for a class of partly burnt runaway…
Alkali metals in white dwarf atmospheres as tracers of ancient planetary crusts
Mark A. Hollands, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Boris T. Gänsicke +2
White dwarfs that accrete the debris of tidally disrupted asteroids provide the opportunity to measure the bulk composition of the building blocks, or fragments, of exoplanets. Thi…
White dwarfs with planetary remnants in the era of Gaia I: six emission line systems
N. P. Gentile Fusillo, C. J. Manser, Boris T. Gänsicke +17
White dwarfs with emission lines from gaseous debris discs are among the rarest examples of planetary remnant hosts, but at the same time they are key objects for studying the fina…
White dwarf pollution by hydrated planetary remnants: Hydrogen and Metals in WD J204713.76-125908.9
Matthew J. Hoskin, Odette Toloza, Boris T. Gänsicke +9
WD J204713.76-125908.9 is a new addition to the small class of white dwarfs with helium-dominated photospheres that exhibit strong Balmer absorption lines and atmospheric metal pol…
white dwarfs within 40 pc II: the volume-limited northern hemisphere sample
Jack McCleery, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo +6
We present an overview of the sample of northern hemisphere white dwarfs within 40 pc of the Sun detected from Data Release 2 (DR2). We find that 521 sources are spectroscop…
white dwarfs within 40 pc I: spectroscopic observations of new candidates
P. -E. Tremblay, M. A. Hollands, N. P. Gentile Fusillo +30
We present a spectroscopic survey of 230 white dwarf candidates within 40 pc of the Sun from the William Herschel Telescope and Gran Telescopio Canarias. All candidates were select…
An ultra-massive white dwarf with a mixed hydrogen-carbon atmosphere as a likely merger remnant
Mark A. Hollands, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Boris T. Gänsicke +11
White dwarfs are dense, cooling stellar embers consisting mostly of carbon and oxygen, or oxygen and neon (with a few percent carbon) at higher initial stellar masses. These stella…
IGAPS: the merged IPHAS and UVEX optical surveys of theNorthern Galactic Plane
M. Monguió, R. Greimel, J. E. Drew +47
The INT Galactic Plane Survey (IGAPS) is the merger of the optical photometric surveys, IPHAS and UVEX, based on data from the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) obtained between 2003 an…
The frequency of gaseous debris discs around white dwarfs
Christopher J. Manser, Boris T. Gänsicke, Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo +5
1-3 per cent of white dwarfs are orbited by planetary dusty debris detectable as infrared emission in excess above the white dwarf flux. In a rare subset of these systems, a gaseou…
Are exoplanetesimals differentiated?
Amy Bonsor, Philip J. Carter, Mark Hollands +3
Metals observed in the atmospheres of white dwarfs suggest that many have recently accreted planetary bodies. In some cases, the compositions observed suggest the accretion of mate…
From Hydrogen to Helium: The Spectral Evolution of White Dwarfs as Evidence for Convective Mixing
Tim Cunningham, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo +2
We present a study of the hypothesis that white dwarfs undergo a spectral change from hydrogen- to helium-dominated atmospheres using a volume-limited photometric sample drawn from…
Interpretation and diversity of exoplanetary material orbiting white dwarfs
Andrew Swan, Jay Farihi, Detlev Koester +5
Nine metal-polluted white dwarfs are observed with medium-resolution optical spectroscopy,where photospheric abundances are determined and interpreted through comparison against so…
Core crystallization and pile-up in the cooling sequence of evolving white dwarfs
Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Gilles Fontaine, Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo +7
White dwarfs are stellar embers depleted of nuclear energy sources that cool over billions of years. These stars, which are supported by electron degeneracy pressure, reach densiti…
A Volume Limited Sample of Cataclysmic Variables from DR2: Space Density and Population Properties
A. F. Pala, B. T. Gänsicke, E. Breedt +15
We present the first volume-limited sample of cataclysmic variables (CVs), selected using the accurate parallaxes provided by the second data release (DR2) of the ESA $\mathit{Gaia…
Astro 2020 Science White Paper: Evolved Planetary Systems around White Dwarfs
Boris Gaensicke, Martin Barstow, Amy Bonsor +25
Practically all known planet hosts will evolve into white dwarfs, and large parts of their planetary systems will survive this transition - the same is true for the solar system be…
A planetesimal orbiting within the debris disc around a white dwarf star
Christopher J. Manser, Boris T. Gänsicke, Siegfried Eggl +29
Many white dwarf stars show signs of having accreted smaller bodies, implying that they may host planetary systems. A small number of these systems contain gaseous debris discs, vi…
Partly burnt runaway stellar remnants from peculiar thermonuclear supernovae
R. Raddi, M. A. Hollands, D. Koester +13
We report the discovery of three stars that, along with the prototype LP40-365, form a distinct class of chemically peculiar runaway stars that are the survivors of thermonuclear e…