Ages of field stars from white dwarf comp. in Gaia Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Qiu D.
  2. Tian H.-J.
  3. Wang X.-D.
  4. Nie J.-L.
  5. von Hippel T.
  6. Liu G.-C.,Fouesneau M.
  7. Rix H.-W.
  8. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We analyze 4050 wide binary star systems involving a white dwarf (WD) and usually a main-sequence (MS) star, drawn from the large sample assembled by Tian+ (2020, J/ApJS/246/4). Using the modeling code BASE-9, we determine the system's ages, the WD progenitors' zero-age MS masses, the extinction values (AV), and the distance moduli. Discarding the cases with poor age convergences, we obtain ages for 3551 WDs, with a median age precision of {sigma}{tau}/{tau}=20%, and system ages typically in the range of 1-6Gyr. We validated these ages against the very few known clusters and through cross validation of 236 WD-WD binaries. Under the assumption that the components are coeval in a binary system, this provides precise age constraints on the usually low-mass MS companions, mostly inaccessible by any other means.

Keywords
  1. white-dwarf-stars
  2. multiple-stars
  3. proper-motions
  4. visible-astronomy
  5. trigonometric-parallax
  6. infrared-photometry
  7. Wide-band photometry
  8. stellar-ages
  9. stellar-masses
  10. metallicity
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2021ApJS..253...58Q
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Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22530058

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History

2021-07-30T12:54:21Z
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2021-07-30T12:54:21Z
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2022-07-07T17:45:00Z
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