Cosmochronology within the stellar neighbourhood: Leaving no star and planet behind

Project Information

MOS100PC

Grant agreement ID: 101002408

DOI

10.3030/101002408

EC signature date 16 February 2021

Start date 1 December 2021

End date 31 May 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 999 338,00

EU contribution

€ 1 999 338,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (40)

The dearth of high-mass hydrogen-atmosphere metal-polluted white dwarfs within 40 pc

Author(s): Tim Cunningham, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Mairi O’Brien, Evan B Bauer, Mark A Hollands, Detlev Koester, Scott J Kenyon, David Charbonneau, Dimitri Veras, Muhammad Furqaan Yusaf
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 539, 2025, Page(s) 2021-2038, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf428

The 40 pc sample of white dwarfs from Gaia

Author(s): Mairi W. O'Brien; P.-E. Tremblay; B. L. Klein; D. Koester; C. Melis; A. Bédard; E. Cukanovaite; T. Cunningham; A. E. Doyle; B. T. Gänsicke; N. P. Gentile Fusillo; M. A. Hollands; J. McCleery; I. Pelisoli; S. Toonen; A. J. Weinberger; B. Zuckerman
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Volume 527, Issue 3, 2024, Page(s) 8687-8705, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3773

The ubiquity of carbon dredge-up in hydrogen-deficient white dwarfs as revealed by GALEX

Author(s): Simon Blouin; Mukremin Kilic; Antoine Bédard; Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Issue Volume 525, Issue 1, 2023, Page(s) L112-L116, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slad105

An HST COS ultraviolet spectroscopic survey of 311 DA white dwarfs - I. Fundamental parameters and comparative studies

Author(s): Snehalata Sahu; Boris T. Gaensicke; Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay; Detlev Koester; J.J. Hermes; David J. Wilson; Odette Toloza; Matthew J. Hoskin; Jay Farihi; Christopher J. Manser; Seth Redfield
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Volume 526, Issue 4, 2023, Page(s) 5800-5823, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2663

The White Dwarf Initial–Final Mass Relation from Open Clusters in Gaia DR3

Author(s): David R. Miller, Ilaria Caiazzo, Jeremy Heyl, Harvey B. Richer, Mark A. Hollands, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Kareem El-Badry, Antonio C. Rodriguez, Zachary P. Vanderbosch
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 996, 2025, Page(s) 69, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae18c8

A Test of Spectroscopic Age Estimates of White Dwarfs Using Wide WD+WD Binaries

Author(s): Tyler M. Heintz; J.J. Hermes; P.-E. Tremblay; Lou Baya Ould Rouis; Joshua S. Redding; B. C. Kaiser; Jennifer L. van Saders
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue Volume 969, Issue 1, 2024, Page(s) id.68, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOPscience - Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad479b

Initial-final mass relation from white dwarfs within 40 pc

Author(s): Tim Cunningham; Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay; Mairi W. O’Brien
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Volume 527, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 3602–3611, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: The Royal Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3275

PEWDD: A database of white dwarfs enriched by exo-planetary material

Author(s): J. T. Williams, B. T. Gänsicke, A. Swan, M. W. O’Brien, P. Izquierdo, A-M. Cutolo, T. Cunningham
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 691, 2024, Page(s) A352, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450509

Carbon dredge-up required to explain the Gaia white dwarf colour–magnitude bifurcation

Author(s): Simon Blouin; Antoine Bédard; Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Volume 523, Issue 3, 2023, Page(s) 3363–3375, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1574

The prototype double-faced white dwarf has a thin hydrogen layer across its entire surface

Author(s): Antoine Bédard, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Issue 538, 2025, Page(s) L69-L75, ISSN 1745-3933
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slaf011

Comparison of methods used to derive the Galactic star formation history from white dwarf samples

Author(s): Emily K Roberts, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Mairi W O’Brien, Antoine Bédard, Tim Cunningham, Conor M Byrne, Elena Cukanovaite
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 538, 2025, Page(s) 2548-2561, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf434

Current challenges in the physics of white dwarf stars

Author(s): Didier Saumon; Simon Blouin; Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay
Published in: Physics Reports, Issue Volume 988, 2022, Page(s) 1-63, ISSN 0370-1573
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2022.09.001

Increased Surface Temperatures of Habitable White Dwarf Worlds Relative to Main-sequence Exoplanets

Author(s): Aomawa L. Shields, Eric T. Wolf, Eric Agol, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 979, 2025, Page(s) 45, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad9827

Spectral analysis of ultra-cool white dwarfs polluted by planetary debris

Author(s): Abbigail K Elms; Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay; Boris T Gänsicke; Detlev Koester; Mark A Hollands; Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo; Tim Cunningham; Kevin Apps
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Volume 517, Issue 3, 2022, Page(s) 4557–4574, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2206.05258

The miniJPAS survey: White dwarf science with 56 optical filters

Author(s): C. López-Sanjuan, P.-E. Tremblay, A. Ederoclite, H. Vázquez Ramió, A. J. Cenarro, A. Marín-Franch, J. Varela, S. Akras, M. A. Guerrero, F. M. Jiménez-Esteban, R. Lopes de Oliveira, A. L. Chies-Santos, J. A. Fernández-Ontiveros, R. Abramo, J. Alcaniz, N. Benítez, S. Bonoli, S. Carneiro, D. Cristóbal-Hornillos, R. A. Dupke, C. Mendes de Oliveira, M. Moles, L. Sodré Jr. and K. Taylor
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 665, A151, 2022, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243584

An emerging and enigmatic spectral class of isolated DAe white dwarfs

Author(s): Abbigail K. Elms; Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay; Boris T. Gänsicke; Andrew Swan; Carl Melis; Antoine Bédard; Christopher J. Manser; James Munday; J. J. Hermes; Erik Dennihy; Atsuko Nitta; Ben Zuckerman
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Volume 524, Issue 4, 2023, Page(s) 4996-5015, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2171

Constraints on Remnant Planetary Systems as a Function of Main-sequence Mass with HST/COS

Author(s): Lou Baya Ould Rouis, J. J. Hermes, Boris T. Gänsicke, Snehalata Sahu, Detlev Koester, P.-E. Tremblay, Dimitri Veras, Jay Farihi, Tyler M. Heintz, Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo, Seth Redfield
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 976, 2024, Page(s) 156, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad86bb

Discovery of an icy and nitrogen-rich extrasolar planetesimal

Author(s): Snehalata Sahu, Boris T Gänsicke, Jamie T Williams, Detlev G Koester, Jay Farihi, Steven J Desch, Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo, Dimitri Veras, Sean N Raymond, Maria Teresa Belmonte
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 543, 2025, Page(s) 223-232, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf1424

The Gaia white dwarf revolution

Author(s): Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay; Antoine Bédard; Mairi W. O'Brien; James Munday; Abbigail K. Elms; Nicola Pietro Gentillo Fusillo; Snehalata Sahu
Published in: New Astronomy Reviews, Issue Volume 99, 2024, Page(s) 101705, ISSN 1387-6473
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.newar.2024.101705

The spectral evolution of white dwarfs: where do we stand?

Author(s): Antoine Bédard
Published in: Astrophysics and Space Science, Issue 369, 2024, ISSN 0004-640X
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10509-024-04307-5

J-PLUS: The fraction of calcium white dwarfs along the cooling sequence

Author(s): C. López-Sanjuan, P.-E. Tremblay, M. W. O’Brien, D. Spinoso, A. Ederoclite, H. Vázquez Ramió, A. J. Cenarro, A. Marín-Franch, T. Civera, J. M. Carrasco, B. T. Gänsicke, N. P. Gentile Fusillo, A. Hernán-Caballero, M. A. Hollands, A. del Pino, H. Domínguez Sánchez, J. A. Fernández-Ontiveros, F. M. Jiménez-Esteban, A. Rebassa-Mansergas, L. Schmidtobreick, R. E. Angulo, D. Cristóbal-Horni
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 691, 2024, Page(s) A211, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451226

A rotating white dwarf shows different compositions on its opposite faces

Author(s): Ilaria Caiazzo; Kevin B. Burdge; Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay; James Fuller; Lilia Ferrario; Boris T. Gaensicke; J. J. Hermes; Jeremy Heyl; Adela Kawka; S. R. Kulkarni; Thomas R. Marsh; Przemek Mroz; Thomas A. Prince; Harvey B. Richer; Antonio C. Rodriguez; Jan van Roestel; Zachary P. Vanderbosch; Stephane Vennes; Dayal Wickramasinghe; Vikram S. Dhillon; Stuart P. Littlefair; James Munday; Ingrid Peliso
Published in: Nature, Issue Volume 620, Issue 7972, 2023, Page(s) 61-66, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06171-9

Detection of a weak magnetic field in the Balmer emission line white dwarf WDJ1653−1001

Author(s): Abbigail K Elms, Stefano Bagnulo, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Tim Cunningham, James Munday, John Landstreet, Kareem El-Badry, Ilaria Caiazzo, Carl Melis, Viktoria Pinter, Alycia Weinberger
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 548, 2026, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag505

Gaia white dwarfs within 40 pc – III. Spectroscopic observations of new candidates in the Southern hemisphere

Author(s): Mairi W O’Brien; P-E Tremblay; N P Gentile Fusillo; M A Hollands; B T Gänsicke; D Koester; I Pelisoli; E Cukanovaite; T Cunningham; A E Doyle; A Elms; J Farihi; J J Hermes; J Holberg; S Jordan; B L Klein; S J Kleinman; C J Manser; D De Martino; T R Marsh; J McCleery; C Melis, A Nitta; S G Parsons; R Raddi; A Rebassa-Mansergas; M R Schreiber; R Silvotti; D Steeghs; O Toloza; S Toonen; S Torres;
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Volume 518, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 3055–3073, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3303

ZTF J021804.16+071152.93: a dead cataclysmic variable and potential solution to the missing period bouncer cataclysmic variables

Author(s): S G Parsons, A J Brown, S L Casewell, S P Littlefair, J van Roestel, A Rebassa-Mansergas, R Murillo-Ojeda, M Zorotovic, M R Schreiber, S Bagnulo, M A Stroet, N Castro Segura, V S Dhillon, M J Dyer, J A Garbutt, M J Green, D Jarvis, M R Kennedy, P Kerry, J McCormac, J Munday, I Pelisoli, E Pike, D I Sahman, A Yates
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 547, 2026, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag521

J-PLUS: Toward a homogeneous photometric calibration using Gaia BP/RP low-resolution spectra

Author(s): C. López-Sanjuan; H. Vázquez Ramió; K. Xiao, H. Yuan; J. M. Carrasco; J. Varela; D. Cristóbal-Hornillos; P.-E. Tremblay; A. Ederoclite; A. Marín-Franch; A. J. Cenarro; P. R. T. Coelho; S. Daflon; A. del Pino; H. Domínguez Sánchez; J. A. Fernández-Ontiveros; A. Hernán-Caballero; F. M. Jiménez-Esteban; J. Alcaniz; R. E. Angulo; R. A. Dupke; C. Hernández-Monteagudo; M. Moles; L. Sodré Jr
Published in: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Issue Volume 683, 2024, Page(s) A29, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346012

Ultraviolet extinction correlation with 3D dust maps using white dwarfs

Author(s): Snehalata Sahu, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Rosine Lallement, Seth Redfield, Boris T Gänsicke
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 535, 2024, Page(s) 1147-1162, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2366

Classifying white dwarfs from multi-object spectroscopy surveys with machine learning

Author(s): James Munday, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Ingrid Pelisoli, Thomas Killestein, Julia Martikainen, David Jones, Antoine Bédard, Paulina Sowicka
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 546, 2026, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag246

The DBL Survey II: towards a mass<b>–</b>period distribution of double white dwarf binaries

Author(s): James Munday, Ingrid Pelisoli, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, David Jones, Gijs Nelemans, Mukremin Kilic, Tim Cunningham, Silvia Toonen, Alejandro Santos-García, Harry Dawson, Viktoria Pinter, Benjamin Godson, Llanos Martinez, Jaya Chand, Ross Dobson, Kiran Jhass, Shravya Shenoy
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 541, 2025, Page(s) 3494-3512, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf1198

A hot white dwarf merger remnant revealed by an ultraviolet detection of carbon

Author(s): Snehalata Sahu, Antoine Bédard, Boris T. Gänsicke, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Detlev Koester, Jay Farihi, J. J. Hermes, Mark A. Hollands, Tim Cunningham, Seth Redfield
Published in: Nature Astronomy, Issue 9, 2025, Page(s) 1347-1355, ISSN 2397-3366
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02590-y

An Eclipsing 47 minute Double White Dwarf Binary at 400 pc

Author(s): James Munday; P.-E. Tremblay; J. J. Hermes; Brad Barlow; Ingrid Pelisoli; T. R. Marsh; Steven G. Parsons; David Jones; S. O. Kepler; Alex Brown; S. P. Littlefair; R. Hegedus; Andrzej Baran; Elmé Breedt; V. S. Dhillon; Martin J. Dyer; Matthew J. Green; Mark R. Kennedy; Paul Kerry; Isaac D. Lopez; Alejandra D. Romero; Dave Sahman; Hannah L. Worters
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Volume 525, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 1814-1823, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2347

Local stellar formation history from the 40 pc white dwarf sample

Author(s): E Cukanovaite; P-E Tremblay; S Toonen; K D Temmink; Christopher J Manser; M W O’Brien; J McCleery
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Volume 522, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 1643–1661, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1020

The 100 pc White Dwarf Sample in the SDSS Footprint. II. A New Look at the Spectral Evolution of White Dwarfs

Author(s): Mukremin Kilic, Pierre Bergeron, Simon Blouin, Adam Moss, Warren R. Brown, Antoine Bédard, Gracyn Jewett, Marcel A. Agüeros
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 979, 2025, Page(s) 157, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad9bb3

Assessing the star formation history of all-sky and part-sky 100 pc white dwarf samples

Author(s): Emily K Roberts, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Antoine Bédard
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 548, 2026, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag400

J-PLUS: Understanding outlier white dwarfs in the third data release via dimensionality reduction

Author(s): C. López-Sanjuan, P.-E. Tremblay, A. del Pino, H. Domínguez Sánchez, H. Vázquez Ramió, A. Ederoclite, A. J. Cenarro, A. Marín-Franch, B. Anguiano, T. Civera, P. Cruz, J. A. Fernández-Ontiveros, F. M. Jiménez-Esteban, A. Rebassa-Mansergas, J. Vega-Ferrero, J. Alcaniz, R. E. Angulo, D. Cristóbal-Hornillos, R. A. Dupke, C. Hernández-Monteagudo, M. Moles, L. Sodré, J. Varela
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 701, 2025, Page(s) A273, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202555286

A network of cooler white dwarfs as infrared standards for flux calibration

Author(s): Abbigail K Elms, Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Ralph C Bohlin, Mark A Hollands, Snehalata Sahu, Mairi W O’Brien, Susana Deustua, Tim Cunningham
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 534, 2024, Page(s) 2758-2782, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2265

Characterizing planetary material accreted by cool helium-atmosphere white dwarfs using an exponentially decaying disc model

Author(s): Mairi W O’Brien, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Beth L Klein, Carl Melis, Detlev Koester, Andrew M Buchan, Dimitri Veras, Alexandra E Doyle
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 539, 2025, Page(s) 171-184, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf398

A super-Chandrasekhar mass type Ia supernova progenitor at 49 pc set to detonate in 23 Gyr

Author(s): James Munday, Ruediger Pakmor, Ingrid Pelisoli, David Jones, Snehalata Sahu, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Abinaya Swaruba Rajamuthukumar, Gijs Nelemans, Mark Magee, Silvia Toonen, Antoine Bédard, Tim Cunningham
Published in: Nature Astronomy, Issue 9, 2025, Page(s) 872-882, ISSN 2397-3366
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02528-4

The DBL Survey I: discovery of 34 double-lined double white dwarf binaries

Author(s): James Munday; Ingrid Pelisoli; P. E. Tremblay; T. R. Marsh; Gijs Nelemans; Antoine Bédard; Silvia Toonen; Elmé Breedt; Tim Cunningham; Mairi W. O'Brien; Harry Dawson
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 2024, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1645

Buoyant crystals halt the cooling of white dwarf stars

Author(s): Antoine Bédard; Simon Blouin; Sihao Cheng
Published in: Nature, Issue Volume 627, Issue 8003, 2024, Page(s) p.286-288, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07102-y