New close binary systems from the SDSS DR5

DOI

We present the latest catalog of more than 1200 spectroscopically selected close binary systems observed with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey through Data Release Five. We use the catalog to search for magnetic white dwarfs in cataclysmic variable progenitor systems. Given that approximately 25% of cataclysmic variables contain a magnetic white dwarf, and that our large sample of close binary systems should contain many progenitors of cataclysmic variables, it is quite surprising that we find only two potential magnetic white dwarfs in this sample.

Cone search capability for table J/AJ/134/741/table1 (The SDSS-I DR5 catalog of close binary systems)

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.51340741
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/134/741
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Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/134/741
Provenance
Creator Silvestri N.M.; Lemagie M.P.; Hawley S.L.; West A.A.; Schmidt G.D.,Liebert J.; Szkody P.; Mannikko L.; Wolfe M.A.; Barentine J.C.,Brewington H.J.; Harvanek M.; Krzesinski J.; Long D.; Schneider D.P.,Snedden S.A.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2009
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy