Measuring White Dwarf Variability from Sparsely Sampled Gaia DR3 Multi-epoch Photometry

被引:4
作者
Steen, Maya [1 ,2 ]
Hermes, J. J. [1 ]
Guidry, Joseph A. [1 ]
Paiva, Annabelle [1 ]
Farihi, Jay [3 ]
Heintz, Tyler M. [1 ]
Ewing, Brison B. [1 ]
Berry, Nathaniel [4 ]
机构
[1] Boston Univ, Dept Astron, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[2] New Mexico State Univ, Dept Astron, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA
[3] UCL, Dept Phys & Astron, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT, England
[4] Univ N Carolina, Dept Phys & Astron, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
COMMON-ENVELOPE BINARIES; MAIN-SEQUENCE BINARIES; HIGH-SPEED PHOTOMETRY; BLUE OBJECT SURVEY; CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES; ZZ-CETI; SYSTEMATIC SEARCH; X-RAY; SDSS; MASS;
D O I
10.3847/1538-4357/ad3e60
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
White dwarf stars are ubiquitous in the Galaxy, and are essential to understanding stellar evolution. While most white dwarfs are photometrically stable and reliable flux standards, some can be highly variable, which can reveal unique details about the endpoints of low-mass stellar evolution. In this study, we characterize a sample of high-confidence white dwarfs with multi-epoch photometry from Gaia Data Release 3. We compare these Gaia light curves with light curves from the Zwicky Transiting Facility and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to see when Gaia data independently can accurately measure periods of variability. From this sample, 105 objects have variability periods measured from the Gaia light curves independently, with periods as long as roughly 9.5 days and as short as 256.2 s (roughly 4 minutes), including seven systems with periods shorter than 1000 s. We discover 86 new objects from the 105 target samples, including pulsating, spotted, and binary white dwarfs, and even a new 68.4 minute eclipsing cataclysmic variable. The median amplitude of the absolute photometric variability we confirm from Gaia independently is 1.4%, demonstrating that Gaia epoch photometry is capable of measuring short-term periods even when observations are sparse.
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