Low Temperature Astrophysics, Supermassive Black Holes, Magnetars, Strange Stars, Magnetic Fields in the Universe and in Compact Stars, Dense Quark and Hadron Matter Physics and Astrophysics, Supernovae, Pulsars, Neutron Stars and White DwarfsOpen Access

White Dwarf Stars

S. O. Kepler

Departamento de Astronomia, Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 91501-970 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

E-mail Address: kepler@if.ufrgs.br

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Alejandra Daniela Romero

Departamento de Astronomia, Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 91501-970 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

E-mail Address: aleromero82@gmail.com

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Ingrid Pelisoli

Departamento de Astronomia, Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 91501-970 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

E-mail Address: ingrid.pelisoli@gmail.com

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Gustavo Ourique

Departamento de Astronomia, Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 91501-970 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

E-mail Address: ourique.gustavo@gmail.com

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S2010194517600230Cited by:5 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

White dwarf stars are the final stage of most stars, born single or in multiple systems. We discuss the identification, magnetic fields, and mass distribution for white dwarfs detected from spectra obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey up to Data Release 13 in 2016, which lead to the increase in the number of spectroscopically identified white dwarf stars from 5000 to 39000. This number includes only white dwarf stars with $log g \geq 6.5$ $log g \geq 6.5$ , i.e., excluding the Extremely Low Mass white dwarfs, which are necessarily the byproduct of stellar interaction.

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