Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-05-25
ASP Conference Series, 2011, Vol. 447, pages 177-182
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
to appear in the ASP Conference Series on "Evolution of Compact Binaries" (ESO), Vi\~na del Mar, 2011
Scientific paper
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), originally targeted at quasi-stellar objects, has provided us with a wealth of astronomical byproducts through the last decade. Since then, the number of white dwarfs (WDs) with physically bound main-sequence star companions (mostly dM stars) has increased radically, allowing for fundamentally new insights into stellar physics. Different methods for the retrieval and follow-up analysis of SDSS WD-dM binaries have been applied in the literature, leading to a rising number of WD-dM catalogs. Here we present a detailed literature search, coupled with our own hunting for SDSS WD-dMs by color selection, the outcome being named the "SDSS White Dwarf - M Star Library". We also explain improvements of our automated spectral analysis method.
Heller Rene
Schwope Axel D.
Østensen Roy H.
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