Eleven new DA white dwarf variable stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

We report the discovery of 11 new variable DAwhite dwarf (ZZ Ceti) stars. Candidates were selected by deriving temperatures from model fits to spectra obtained from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We also find objects whose temperatures and gravities indicate they lie within the instability str...

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Autores: Mullally, Fergal, Thompson, S. E., Castanheira, Bárbara Garcia, Winget, Donald Earl, Kepler, Souza Oliveira, Eisenstein, D.J., Kleinman, Scot James, Nitta, Atsuko
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2005
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:www.lume.ufrgs.br:10183/108922
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10183/108922
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Anãs brancas
Catalogos astronomicos
Pulsacoes estelares
Espectros estelares
Estrelas variaveis
Asterosismologia
Stars: oscillations
White dwarfs
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Sumario:We report the discovery of 11 new variable DAwhite dwarf (ZZ Ceti) stars. Candidates were selected by deriving temperatures from model fits to spectra obtained from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We also find objects whose temperatures and gravities indicate they lie within the instability strip for pulsation but were not observed to vary. Although the temperatures are based on relatively low signal-to-noise ratio spectra, an impure strip is unexpected, which if confirmed, has implications for DA asteroseismology. This work brings the total number of published variable DA white dwarf stars to 82.