Current challenges in the physics of white dwarf stars

D Saumon, S Blouin, PE Tremblay - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
White dwarfs are a class of stars with unique physical properties. They present many
challenging problems whose solution requires advanced theories of dense matter, state-of …

Magnetic white dwarfs

L Ferrario, D de Martino, BT Gänsicke - Space Science Reviews, 2015 - Springer
In this paper we review the current status of research on the observational and theoretical
characteristics of isolated and binary magnetic white dwarfs (MWDs). Magnetic fields of …

A Gaia Data Release 2 catalogue of white dwarfs and a comparison with SDSS

NP Gentile Fusillo, PE Tremblay… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a catalogue of white dwarf candidates selected from the second data release of
Gaia (DR2). We used a sample of spectroscopically confirmed white dwarfs from the Sloan …

New white dwarf and subdwarf stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 12

SO Kepler, I Pelisoli, D Koester… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We report the discovery of 6576 new spectroscopically confirmed white dwarf and subdwarf
stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 12. We obtain T eff, log g and mass for …

An improved spectroscopic analysis of DA white dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4

PE Tremblay, P Bergeron… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an improved spectroscopic and photometric analysis of hydrogen-line DA white
dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4 (SDSS DR4) based on model …

A measurement of the equation of state of carbon envelopes of white dwarfs

AL Kritcher, DC Swift, T Döppner, B Bachmann… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
White dwarfs represent the final state of evolution for most stars,–. Certain classes of white
dwarfs pulsate,, leading to observable brightness variations, and analysis of these variations …

New white dwarf stars in the Sloan digital sky survey data release 10

SO Kepler, I Pelisoli, D Koester… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We report the discovery of 9088 new spectroscopically confirmed white dwarfs and
subdwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 10. We obtain T eff, log g and mass …

Evolutionary and pulsational properties of white dwarf stars

LG Althaus, AH Córsico, J Isern… - The Astronomy and …, 2010 - Springer
White dwarf stars are the final evolutionary stage of the vast majority of stars, including our
Sun. Since the coolest white dwarfs are very old objects, the present population of white …

A comprehensive spectroscopic analysis of DB white dwarfs

P Bergeron, F Wesemael, P Dufour… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a detailed analysis of 108 helium-line (DB) white dwarfs based on model
atmosphere fits to high signal-to-noise optical spectroscopy. We derive a mean mass of 0.67 …

New insight into the magnetism of degenerate stars from the analysis of a volume-limited sample of white dwarfs

S Bagnulo, JD Landstreet - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Many stars evolve into magnetic white dwarfs (MWDs), and observations may help to
understand when the magnetic field appears at the stellar surface, if and how it evolves …