A Catalog of Spectroscopically Confirmed White Dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4
Abstract
We present a catalog of 9316 spectroscopically confirmed white dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4. We have selected the stars through photometric cuts and spectroscopic modeling, backed up by a set of visual inspections. About 6000 of the stars are new discoveries, roughly doubling the number of spectroscopically confirmed white dwarfs. We analyze the stars by performing temperature and surface gravity fits to grids of pure hydrogen and helium atmospheres. Among the rare outliers are a set of presumed helium-core DA white dwarfs with estimated masses below 0.3 Msolar, including two candidates that may be the lowest-mass yet found. We also present a list of 928 hot subdwarfs.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
- Pub Date:
- November 2006
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0606700
- Bibcode:
- 2006ApJS..167...40E
- Keywords:
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- Catalogs;
- Stars: Subdwarfs;
- Stars: White Dwarfs;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Accepted by the Astrophysical Journal Supplements, 25 pages, 24 figures, LaTeX. The electronic catalog, as well as diagnostic figures and links to the spectra, is available at http://das.sdss.org/wdcat/dr4/
