Astrophysical: White dwarf stars

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    A Gravitational-wave-detectable Candidate Type Ia Supernova Progenitor
    Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), critical for studying cosmic expansion, arise from thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs, but their precise progenitor pathways...
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    A Link Between White Dwarf Pulsars and Polars: Multiwavelength Observations of the 9.36-minute Period Variable Gaia22ayj
    White dwarfs (WDs) are the most abundant compact objects, and recent surveys have suggested that over a third of WDs in accreting binaries host a strong (B ≳ 1...
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    A New Class of Roche Lobe-filling Hot Subdwarf Binaries
    We present the discovery of the second binary with a Roche lobe-filling hot subdwarf transferring mass to a white dwarf (WD) companion. This 56 minute binary...
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    A new pulsating PG 1159 white dwarf - RXJ 2117.1 + 3412
    RXJ 2117.1 + 3412 is a newly spectroscopically identified bright PG1159 star discovered in the ROSAT XRT sky survey. We report the results of rapid photometry...
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    A Systematic Search of Zwicky Transient Facility Data for Ultracompact Binary LISA-detectable Gravitational-wave Sources
    Using photometry collected with the Zwicky Transient Facility, we are conducting an ongoing survey for binary systems with short orbital periods ( ${P}_{{\rm{b}...
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    An optical time-resolved spectroscopic study of SS Cygni. 1: Quiescence
    In this work we analyze time-resolved spectra of SS Cygni in quiescence. The geometrical and orbital fundamental parameters of the system are determined. When...
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    Analysis of Previously Classified White Dwarf-Main-sequence Binaries Using Data from the APOGEE Survey
    We present analyses of near-infrared spectroscopic data from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey for 45 previously...
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    Astronomers discover a white dwarf formed by the merger of two stars
    An international team of researchers led by the University of Warwick, with a member who is a scientist at the IAC has discovered white dwarf with unusual...
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    Calibrating the Clock of JWST
    JWST, despite not being designed to observe astrophysical phenomena that vary on rapid timescales, can be an unparalleled tool for such studies. If timing...