Hard X-ray Emission Associated with White Dwarfs II

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2003-10-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310312v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 1 table, no figures, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal, 2004 January issue

Scientific paper

10.1086/380230

We have previously conducted a search for X-ray sources coincident with white dwarfs using the white dwarf catalog compiled by McCook & Sion (1999} and the ROSAT sources in the WGACAT (Paper I). To include the white dwarfs discovered since 1999 and to include the X-ray sources detected in ROSAT Position Sensitive Proportional Counter (PSPC) observations made with a boron filter, we have carried out another search using an updated list of white dwarfs and the final catalogs of the ROSAT PSPC observations with and without a boron filter. Forty-seven new X-ray sources convincingly coincident with white dwarfs are found and reported in this paper. Among these, only 5 show hard X-ray emission: three possess confirmed or suggested late-type companions, one is apparently single, and the other is likely a misclassified BL Lac object. The apparently single white dwarf with hard X-ray emission, KPD 0005+5106, was discussed extensively in Paper I. Photospheric origin for the hard X-ray emission from hot DO and DQZO white dwarfs remains a tantalizing possibility, but high-quality near IR spectroscopic observations and monitoring of the H-alpha emission line are needed to rule out the existence of a faint dMe companion.

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