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A gravitational wave detectable candidate Type Ia supernova progenitor
Emma T. Chickles, Kevin B. Burdge, Joheen Chakraborty +37
Type Ia supernovae, critical for studying cosmic expansion, arise from thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs, but their precise progenitor pathways remain unclear. Growing evide…
Expanding the ultracompacts: gravitational wave-driven mass transfer in the shortest-period binaries with accretion disks
Joheen Chakraborty, Kevin B. Burdge, Saul A. Rappaport +35
We report the discovery of three ultracompact binary white dwarf systems hosting accretion disks, with orbital periods of 7.95, 8.68, and 13.15 minutes. This significantly augments…
Analysis of optical spectroscopy and photometry of the type I X-ray bursting system UW CrB
M. R. Kennedy, P. Callanan, P. M. Garnavich +19
UW Coronae Borealis (UW CrB) is a low mass X-ray binary that shows both Type 1 X-ray and optical bursts, which typically last for 20 s. The system has a binary period of close to 2…
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…
The DBL Survey I: discovery of 34 double-lined double white dwarf binaries
James Munday, Ingrid Pelisoli, P. E. Tremblay +8
We present the first discoveries of the double-lined double white dwarf (DBL) survey that targets over-luminous sources with respect to the canonical white dwarf cooling sequence a…
Large-scale ordered magnetic fields generated in mergers of helium white dwarfs
Rüdiger Pakmor, Ingrid Pelisoli, Stephen Justham +9
Stellar mergers are one important path to highly magnetised stars. Mergers of two low-mass white dwarfs may create up to every third hot subdwarf star. The merging process is usual…
The BlackGEM telescope array I: Overview
Paul J. Groot, S. Bloemen, P. Vreeswijk +75
The main science aim of the BlackGEM array is to detect optical counterparts to gravitational wave mergers. Additionally, the array will perform a set of synoptic surveys to detect…
Long-term variability in debris transiting white dwarfs
Amornrat Aungwerojwit, Boris T. Gaensicke, Vikram S. Dhillon +7
Combining archival photometric observations from multiple large-area surveys spanning the past 17 years, we detect long-term variability in the light curves of ZTFJ032833.52-121945…
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 double low-mass white dwarf eclipsing binary system J2102-4145 and its possible evolution
Larissa Antunes Amaral, James Munday, Maja Vučković +7
Approximately 150 low-mass white dwarfs, with masses below 0.4Msun, have been discovered. The majority of these low-mass WDs are observed in binary systems as they cannot be formed…
Probing the inner Galactic Halo with blue horizontal branch stars: Gaia DR3 based catalogue with atmospheric and stellar parameters
Richard Culpan, Matti Dorsch, Stephan Geier +4
Context. Stars that are found on the blue horizontal-branch (BHB) have evolved from low-mass stars that have completed their core hydrogen burning main sequence stage and have unde…
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…
A Survey for Radio Emission from White Dwarfs in the VLA Sky Survey
Ingrid Pelisoli, Laura Chomiuk, Jay Strader +22
Radio emission has been detected from tens of white dwarfs, in particular in accreting systems. Additionally, radio emission has been predicted as a possible outcome of a planetary…
A comprehensive search for hot subdwarf stars using Gaia and TESS I. Pulsating hot subdwarf B stars
Murat Uzundag, Jurek Krzesinski, Ingrid Pelisoli +4
Hot subdwarf B (sdB) stars are evolved, subluminous, helium-burning stars, most likely formed when red-giant stars lose their hydrogen envelope via interactions with close companio…
The 40 pc sample of white dwarfs from Gaia
Mairi W. O'Brien, P. -E. Tremblay, B. L. Klein +14
We present a comprehensive overview of a volume-complete sample of white dwarfs located within 40 pc of the Sun, a significant proportion of which were detected in Gaia Data Releas…