High-mass white dwarfs in Gaia DR2

DOI

Revealed by Gaia DR2, the Q branch is a narrow and prominent branch of white dwarf overdensity on the H-R diagram. We find that there are significantly more fast-moving white dwarfs on the Q branch, which have very old true ages but young photometric ages. This age discrepancy suggests a cooling anomaly in some white dwarfs on the Q branch, posing a challenge to current white dwarf cooling models. We tabulate the information of nearby high-mass white dwarfs (d<250, 1.08<m_WD<1.23), which is used to investigate the Q branch and its physical origin in Cheng et al. (2019). This table contains the WD name, photometry and astrometry from Gaia DR2, H-R diagram coordinates and transverse velocity that we derive, and spectral information from Montreal White Dwarf Database (MWDD).

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Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.18860100
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/886/100
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/886/100
Related Identifier http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/886/100
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/886/100
Provenance
Creator Cheng S.; Cummings J.D.; Menard B.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2020
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; Physics; Stellar Astronomy