Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
Physical Sciences
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
6-1-2004
Abstract/Description
We present 35 new pulsating DA (hydrogen atmosphere) white dwarf stars discovered from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Hamburg Quasar Survey (HQS). We have acquired high-speed time series photometry of preselected DA white dwarfs with a prime focus CCD photometer on the 2.1 m telescope at McDonald Observatory over 15 months. We selected these stars on the basis of prior photometric and spectroscopic observations by the SDSS and HQS. For the homogeneous SDSS sample, we achieve a success rate of 80% for finding new variables at a detection threshold of 0.1%-0.3%. With 35 newly discovered DA variable white dwarfs, we almost double the current sample of 39.
Publication Title
The Astrophysical Journal
Publisher
Institute of Physics Publishing, Inc.
Grant or Award Name
Texas Advanced Research Program grant ARP-0543, NASA grant NAG5-13094, NSF grant AST 98-76730, NASA grant NAG5-9321, and STScI grant GO-08254
Scholarly Commons Citation
Mukadam, A. S., von Hippel, T., & al., e. (2004). Thirty-Five New Pulsating Da White Dwarf Stars. The Astrophysical Journal, 607(2). Retrieved from https://commons.erau.edu/publication/269
Additional Information
Dr. von Hippel was not affiliated with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at the time this paper was published.