An Initial Survey of White Dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Details An Initial Survey of White Dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey An Initial Survey of White Dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

2003-05-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0305347v1

Astron.J. 126 (2003) 1023

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for AJ; 43 pages, including 12 figures and 5 tables

Scientific paper

10.1086/376842

An initial assessment is made of white dwarf and hot subdwarf stars observed in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In a small area of sky (190 square degrees), observed much like the full survey will be, 269 white dwarfs and 56 hot subdwarfs are identified spectroscopically where only 44 white dwarfs and 5 hot subdwarfs were known previously. Most are ordinary DA (hydrogen atmosphere) and DB (helium) types. In addition, in the full survey to date, a number of WDs have been found with uncommon spectral types. Among these are blue DQ stars displaying lines of atomic carbon; red DQ stars showing molecular bands of C_2 with a wide variety of strengths; DZ stars where Ca and occasionally Mg, Na, and/or Fe lines are detected; and magnetic WDs with a wide range of magnetic field strengths in DA, DB, DQ, and (probably) DZ spectral types. Photometry alone allows identification of stars hotter than 12000 K, and the density of these stars for 15

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