Radial velocities of low-mass white dwarfs Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Brown J.M.
  2. Kilic M.
  3. Brown W.R.
  4. Kenyon S.J.
  5. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We describe spectroscopic observations of 21 low-mass (<=0.45M_{sun}_) white dwarfs (WDs) from the Palomar-Green survey obtained over four years. We use both radial velocities and infrared photometry to identify binary systems, and find that the fraction of single, low-mass WDs is <=30%. We discuss the potential formation channels for these single stars including binary mergers of lower-mass objects. However, binary mergers are not likely to explain the observed number of single low-mass WDs. Thus, additional formation channels, such as enhanced mass loss due to winds or interactions with substellar companions, are likely.

Keywords
  1. white-dwarf-stars
  2. radial-velocity
  3. infrared-photometry
  4. multiple-stars
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2011ApJ...730...67B
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/730/67
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/730/67
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.17300067

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History

2012-11-07T14:00:02Z
Resource record created
2012-11-07T14:00:02Z
Created
2017-06-30T05:49:03Z
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