Spectroscopic analysis of DA white dwarfs from the McCook & Sion catalog

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2008-10-29

arxiv.org/abs/0810.5324v1

J.Phys.Conf.Ser.172:012021,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 7 figures, to appear in Journal of Physics Conference Proceedings for the 16th European White Dwarf Workshop

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-6596/172/1/012021

For some years now, we have been gathering optical spectra of DA white dwarfs in an effort to study and define the empirical ZZ Ceti instability strip. However, we have recently expanded this survey to include all the DA white dwarfs in the McCook & Sion catalog down to a limiting visual magnitude of V=17.5. We present here a spectroscopic analysis of over 1000 DA white dwarfs from this ongoing survey. We have several specific areas of interest most notably the hot DAO white dwarfs, the ZZ Ceti instability strip, and the DA+dM binary systems. Furthermore, we present a comparison of the ensemble properties of our sample with those of other large surveys of DA white dwarfs, paying particular attention to the distribution of mass as a function of effective temperature.

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