Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
Physical Sciences
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
10-2004
Abstract/Description
We investigate the use of a narrowband DDO51 filter for photometric identification of cool white dwarfs. We report photometric observations of 30 known cool white dwarfs with temperatures ranging from 10,000 K down to very cool temperatures (3500 K). Follow-up spectroscopic observations of a sample of objects selected using this filter and our photometric observations show that DDO51 filter photometry can help select cool white dwarf candidates for follow-up multiobject spectroscopy by rejecting 65% of main-sequence stars with the same broadband colors as the cool white dwarfs. This technique is not selective enough to efficiently feed single-object spectrographs. We present the white dwarf cooling sequence using this filter. Our observations show that very cool white dwarfs form a sequence in the r DDO versus r z color-color diagram and demonstrate that significant improvements are needed in white dwarf model atmospheres.
Publication Title
The Astronomical Journal
Publisher
Institute of Physics Publishing, Inc.
Grant or Award Name
National Science Foundation grant 0307315
Scholarly Commons Citation
Kilic, M., Winget, D. E., von Hippel, T., & Claver, C. F. (2004). Photometric Identification of Cool White Dwarfs. The Astronomical Journal, 128(4). Retrieved from https://commons.erau.edu/publication/216
