Draco C1 is a known symbiotic binary star system composed of a carbon red giant and a hot, compact companion—likely a white dwarf—belonging to the Draco dwarf...
Identifying New High-confidence Polluted White Dwarf Candidates Using Gaia XP Spectra and Self-organizing Maps
The identification of new white dwarfs (WDs) polluted with heavy elements is important since they provide a valuable tool for inferring the chemical properties...
Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium line profiles, rotation, and magnetic fields in seven DA white dwarfs
Non-LTE calculations of H-alpha line profiles are presented and applied to derive rotational velocities from high-resolution spectra of DA white dwarfs. This...
Observation of a variable, ZZ Ceti white dwarf: GD154
The ZZ Ceti stars form a class of variable white dwarfs: the hydrogen dominated atmosphere ones, which do pulsate in an instability strip in the effective...
On the O/Fe versus Fe/H relationship and the progenitors of type I supernovae
The new observational O/Fe versus Fe/H abundance relationship for halo stars is studied in terms of several models of chemical evolution for the solar...
Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Milky Way Survey (MWS)
The DESI Milky Way Survey (MWS) will observe ≥8 million stars between 16 < r < 19 mag, supplemented by observations of brighter targets under poor observing...
Radio Continuum Studies of Ultracompact and Short Orbital Period X-Ray Binaries
We present the radio continuum counterparts to the enigmatic ultracompact X-ray binaries (UCXBs): a black hole or neutron star accreting from a hydrogen...
Red giant stragglers and He white dwarfs in galactic globulars
The evolutionary scenario concerning the production and the cooling of He white dwarfs is revisited and discussed. We show that, for a given star metallicity...
Strong Carbon Features and a Red Early Color in the Underluminous Type Ia SN 2022xkq
We present optical, infrared, ultraviolet, and radio observations of SN 2022xkq, an underluminous fast-declining Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) in NGC 1784 (D ≈ 31...