High-mass white dwarfs in Gaia DR2 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Cheng S.
  2. Cummings J.D.
  3. Menard B.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Revealed by Gaia DR2, the Q branch is a narrow and prominent branch of white dwarf overdensity on the H-R diagram. We find that there are significantly more fast-moving white dwarfs on the Q branch, which have very old true ages but young photometric ages. This age discrepancy suggests a cooling anomaly in some white dwarfs on the Q branch, posing a challenge to current white dwarf cooling models. We tabulate the information of nearby high-mass white dwarfs (d<250, 1.08<m_WD<1.23), which is used to investigate the Q branch and its physical origin in Cheng et al. (2019). This table contains the WD name, photometry and astrometry from Gaia DR2, H-R diagram coordinates and transverse velocity that we derive, and spectral information from Montreal White Dwarf Database (MWDD).

Keywords
  1. white-dwarf-stars
  2. stellar-masses
  3. stellar-ages
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019ApJ...886..100C
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/886/100
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.18860100

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History

2020-06-11T15:51:00Z
Resource record created
2020-06-11T15:51:00Z
Created
2021-09-10T09:36:11Z
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