Evolution of white dwarfs with 3D model atmospheres

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Peer reviewed articles (40)

TESS first look at evolved compact pulsators

Author(s): Zs. Bognár, S. D. Kawaler, K. J. Bell, C. Schrandt, A. S. Baran, P. A. Bradley, J. J. Hermes, S. Charpinet, G. Handler, S. E. Mullally, S. J. Murphy, R. Raddi, Á. Sódor, P.-E. Tremblay, M. Uzundag, W. Zong
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 638, 2020, Page(s) A82, ISSN 0004-6361
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202037470

3D spectroscopic analysis of helium-line white dwarfs

Author(s): Elena Cukanovaite, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Pierre Bergeron, Bernd Freytag, Hans-Günter Ludwig, Matthias Steffen
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Advance Article, 2021, 0ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3684

Cool white dwarfs as standards for infrared observations

Author(s): Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Ralph C Bohlin, Susana E Deustua, Jason S Kalirai
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 491/3, 2020, Page(s) 3613-3623, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2984

Constraining planet formation around 6–8 M⊙ stars

Author(s): Dimitri Veras, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, J J Hermes, Catriona H McDonald, Grant M Kennedy, Farzana Meru, Boris T Gänsicke
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 493/1, 2020, Page(s) 765-775, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa241

Single magnetic white dwarfs with Balmer emission lines: a small class with consistent physical characteristics as possible signposts for close-in planetary companions

Author(s): Boris T Gänsicke, Pablo Rodríguez-Gil, Nicola P Gentile Fusillo, Keith Inight, Matthias R Schreiber, Anna F Pala, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 499/2, 2020, Page(s) 2564-2574, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2969

An ultra-massive white dwarf with a mixed hydrogen–carbon atmosphere as a likely merger remnant

Author(s): M. A. Hollands, P.-E. Tremblay, B. T. Gänsicke, M. E. Camisassa, D. Koester, A. Aungwerojwit, P. Chote, A. H. Córsico, V. S. Dhillon, N. P. Gentile-Fusillo, M. J. Hoskin, P. Izquierdo, T. R. Marsh, D. Steeghs
Published in: Nature Astronomy, Issue 4/7, 2020, Page(s) 663-669, ISSN 2397-3366
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-020-1028-0

A White Dwarf with Transiting Circumstellar Material Far outside the Roche Limit

Author(s): Z. Vanderbosch, J. J. Hermes, E. Dennihy, B. H. Dunlap, P. Izquierdo, P.-E. Tremblay, P. B. Cho, B. T. Gänsicke, O. Toloza, K. J. Bell, M. H. Montgomery, D. E. Winget
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 897/2, 2020, Page(s) 171, ISSN 1538-4357
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab9649

Gaia white dwarfs within 40 pc – I. Spectroscopic observations of new candidates

Author(s): P-E Tremblay, M A Hollands, N P Gentile Fusillo, J McCleery, P Izquierdo, B T Gänsicke, E Cukanovaite, D Koester, W R Brown, S Charpinet, T Cunningham, J Farihi, N Giammichele, V van Grootel, J J Hermes, M J Hoskin, S Jordan, S O Kepler, S J Kleinman, C J Manser, T R Marsh, D de Martino, A Nitta, S G Parsons, I Pelisoli, R Raddi, A Rebassa-Mansergas, J-J Ren, M R Schreiber, R Silvotti, O Toloz
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 497/1, 2020, Page(s) 130-145, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1892

Intermediate-mass Stars Become Magnetic White Dwarfs

Author(s): Ilaria Caiazzo, Jeremy Heyl, Harvey Richer, Jeffrey Cummings, Leesa Fleury, James Hegarty, Jason Kalirai, Ronan Kerr, Sarah Thiele, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Michael Villanueva
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 901/1, 2020, Page(s) L14, ISSN 2041-8213
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/abb5f7

COol Companions ON Ultrawide orbiTS (COCONUTS). I. A High-gravity T4 Benchmark around an Old White Dwarf and a Re-examination of the Surface-gravity Dependence of the L/T Transition

Author(s): Zhoujian Zhang, Michael C. Liu, J. J. Hermes, Eugene A. Magnier, Mark S. Marley, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Michael A. Tucker, Aaron Do, Anna V. Payne, Benjamin J. Shappee
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 891/2, 2020, Page(s) 171, ISSN 1538-4357
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab765c

J-PLUS: photometric calibration of large-area multi-filter surveys with stellar and white dwarf loci

Author(s): C. López-Sanjuan, J. Varela, D. Cristóbal-Hornillos, H. Vázquez Ramió, J. M. Carrasco, P.-E. Tremblay, D. D. Whitten, V. M. Placco, A. Marín-Franch, A. J. Cenarro, A. Ederoclite, E. Alfaro, P. R. T. Coelho, T. Civera, J. Hernández-Fuertes, F. M. Jiménez-Esteban, Y. Jiménez-Teja, J. Maíz Apellániz, D. Sobral, J. M. Vílchez, J. Alcaniz, R. E. Angulo, R. A. Dupke, C. Hernández-Monteagudo,
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 631, 2019, Page(s) A119, ISSN 0004-6361
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936405

A Systematic Search of Zwicky Transient Facility Data for Ultracompact Binary LISA-detectable Gravitational-wave Sources

Author(s): Kevin B. Burdge, Thomas A. Prince, Jim Fuller, David L. Kaplan, Thomas R. Marsh, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Zhuyun Zhuang, Eric C. Bellm, Ilaria Caiazzo, Michael W. Coughlin, Vik S. Dhillon, Boris Gaensicke, Pablo Rodríguez-Gil, Matthew J. Graham, JJ Hermes, Thomas Kupfer, S. P. Littlefair, Przemek Mróz, E. S. Phinney, Jan van Roestel, Yuhan Yao, Richard G. Dekany, Andrew J. Drake, Dmitry A. Duev,
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 905/1, 2020, Page(s) 32, ISSN 1538-4357
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abc261

Doppler beaming factors for white dwarfs, main sequence stars, and giant stars

Author(s): A. Claret, E. Cukanovaite, K. Burdge, P.-E. Tremblay, S. Parsons, T. R. Marsh
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 641, 2020, Page(s) A157, ISSN 0004-6361
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038436

White Dwarf Rotation as a Function of Mass and a Dichotomy of Mode Line Widths: Kepler Observations of 27 Pulsating DA White Dwarfs through K2 Campaign 8

Author(s): J. J. Hermes, B. T. Gänsicke, Steven D. Kawaler, S. Greiss, P.-E. Tremblay, N. P. Gentile Fusillo, R. Raddi, S. M. Fanale, Keaton J. Bell, E. Dennihy, J. T. Fuchs, B. H. Dunlap, J. C. Clemens, M. H. Montgomery, D. E. Winget, P. Chote, T. R. Marsh, S. Redfield
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Issue 232/2, 2017, Page(s) 23, ISSN 1538-4365
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/aa8bb5

Can magnetic fields suppress convection in the atmosphere of cool white dwarfs? A case study on WD2105−820

Author(s): N. P. Gentile Fusillo, P.-E. Tremblay, S. Jordan, B. T. Gänsicke, J. S. Kalirai, J. Cummings
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 473/3, 2017, Page(s) 3693-3699, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2584

Using large spectroscopic surveys to test the double degenerate model for Type Ia supernovae

Author(s): E. Breedt, D. Steeghs, T. R. Marsh, N. P. Gentile Fusillo, P.-E. Tremblay, M. Green, S. De Pasquale, J. J. Hermes, B. T. Gänsicke, S. G. Parsons, M. C. P. Bours, P. Longa-Peña, A. Rebassa-Mansergas
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 468/3, 2017, Page(s) 2910-2922, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx430

Two white dwarfs in ultrashort binaries with detached, eclipsing, likely sub-stellar companions detected by K2

Author(s): S. G. Parsons, J. J. Hermes, T. R. Marsh, B. T. Gänsicke, P.-E. Tremblay, S. P. Littlefair, D. I. Sahman, R. P. Ashley, M. Green, S. Rattanasoon, V. S. Dhillon, M. R. Burleigh, S. L. Casewell, D. A. H. Buckley, I. P. Braker, P. Irawati, E. Dennihy, P. Rodríguez-Gil, D. E. Winget, K. I. Winget, Keaton J. Bell, Mukremin Kilic
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 471/1, 2017, Page(s) 976-986, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1610

Evidence from K2 for Rapid Rotation in the Descendant of an Intermediate-mass Star

Author(s): J. J. Hermes, Steven D. Kawaler, A. D. Romero, S. O. Kepler, P.-E. Tremblay, Keaton J. Bell, B. H. Dunlap, M. H. Montgomery, B. T. Gänsicke, J. C. Clemens, E. Dennihy, S. Redfield
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 841/1, 2017, Page(s) L2, ISSN 2041-8213
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa6ffc

The Gaia DR1 mass–radius relation for white dwarfs

Author(s): P.-E. Tremblay, N. Gentile-Fusillo, R. Raddi, S. Jordan, C. Besson, B. T. Gänsicke, S. G. Parsons, D. Koester, T. Marsh, R. Bohlin, J. Kalirai, S. Deustua
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 465/3, 2016, Page(s) 2849-2861, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2854

Destroying Aliases from the Ground and Space: Super-Nyquist ZZ Cetis in K2 Long Cadence Data

Author(s): Keaton J. Bell, J. J. Hermes, Z. Vanderbosch, M. H. Montgomery, D. E. Winget, E. Dennihy, J. T. Fuchs, P.-E. Tremblay
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 851/1, 2017, Page(s) 24, ISSN 1538-4357
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa9702

Hydrogen Balmer Line Broadening in Solar and Stellar Flares

Author(s): Adam F. Kowalski, Joel C. Allred, Han Uitenbroek, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Stephen Brown, Mats Carlsson, Rachel A. Osten, John P. Wisniewski, Suzanne L. Hawley
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 837/2, 2017, Page(s) 125, ISSN 1538-4357
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa603e

Fast spectrophotometry of WD 1145+017

Author(s): Paula Izquierdo, Pablo Rodríguez-Gil, Boris T Gänsicke, Alexander J Mustill, Odette Toloza, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Mark Wyatt, Paul Chote, Siegfried Eggl, Jay Farihi, Detlev Koester, Wladimir Lyra, Christopher J Manser, Thomas R Marsh, Enric Pallé, Roberto Raddi, Dimitri Veras, Eva Villaver, Simon Portegies Zwart
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 481/1, 2018, Page(s) 703-714, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2315

Pure-helium 3D model atmospheres of white dwarfs

Author(s): E Cukanovaite, P-E Tremblay, B Freytag, H-G Ludwig, P Bergeron
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 481/2, 2018, Page(s) 1522-1537, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2383

Discovery of the first resolved triple white dwarf

Author(s): M Perpinyà-Vallès, A Rebassa-Mansergas, B T Gänsicke, S Toonen, J J Hermes, N P Gentile Fusillo, P-E Tremblay
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 02018, 0ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3149

The White Dwarf Initial–Final Mass Relation for Progenitor Stars from 0.85 to 7.5 M ⊙

Author(s): Jeffrey D. Cummings, Jason S. Kalirai, P.-E. Tremblay, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Jieun Choi
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 866/1, 2018, Page(s) 21, ISSN 1538-4357
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aadfd6

The onset of convective coupling and freezing in the white dwarfs of 47 Tucanae

Author(s): Alysa Obertas, Ilaria Caiazzo, Jeremy Heyl, Harvey Richer, Jason Kalirai, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 474/1, 2017, Page(s) 677-682, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2759

Multiband photometry and spectroscopy of an all-sky sample of bright white dwarfs

Author(s): R. Raddi, N. P. Gentile Fusillo, A. F. Pala, J. J. Hermes, B. T. Gänsicke, P. Chote, M. A. Hollands, A. Henden, S. Catalán, S. Geier, D. Koester, U. Munari, R. Napiwotzki, P.-E. Tremblay
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 472/4, 2017, Page(s) 4173-4192, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2243

The Gaia 20 pc white dwarf sample

Author(s): M A Hollands, P-E Tremblay, B T Gänsicke, N P Gentile-Fusillo, S Toonen
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 480/3, 2018, Page(s) 3942-3961, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2057

A Gaia Data Release 2 catalogue of white dwarfs and a comparison with SDSS

Author(s): Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Boris T Gänsicke, Christopher J Manser, Tim Cunningham, Elena Cukanovaite, Mark Hollands, Thomas Marsh, Roberto Raddi, Stefan Jordan, Silvia Toonen, Stephan Geier, Martin Barstow, Jeffrey D Cummings
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 482/4, 2018, Page(s) 4570-4591, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3016

Fundamental parameter accuracy of DA and DB white dwarfs in Gaia Data Release 2

Author(s): P-E Tremblay, E Cukanovaite, N P Gentile Fusillo, T Cunningham, M A Hollands
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 482/4, 2018, Page(s) 5222-5232, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3067

Core crystallization and pile-up in the cooling sequence of evolving white dwarfs

Author(s): Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Gilles Fontaine, Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo, Bart H. Dunlap, Boris T. Gänsicke, Mark A. Hollands, J. J. Hermes, Thomas R. Marsh, Elena Cukanovaite, Tim Cunningham
Published in: Nature, Issue 565/7738, 2019, Page(s) 202-205, ISSN 0028-0836
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0791-x

Orbital relaxation and excitation of planets tidally interacting with white dwarfs

Author(s): Dimitri Veras, Michael Efroimsky, Valeri V Makarov, Gwenaël Boué, Vera Wolthoff, Sabine Reffert, Andreas Quirrenbach, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Boris T Gänsicke
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 486/3, 2019, Page(s) 3831-3848, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz965

Calibration of the mixing-length theory for structures of helium-dominated atmosphere white dwarfs

Author(s): E Cukanovaite, P-E Tremblay, B Freytag, H-G Ludwig, G Fontaine, P Brassard, O Toloza, D Koester
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 490/1, 2019, Page(s) 1010-1025, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2656

Carbon star formation as seen through the non-monotonic initial–final mass relation

Author(s): Paola Marigo, Jeffrey D. Cummings, Jason Lee Curtis, Jason Kalirai, Yang Chen, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Pierre Bergeron, Sara Bladh, Alessandro Bressan, Léo Girardi, Giada Pastorelli, Michele Trabucchi, Sihao Cheng, Bernhard Aringer, Piero Dal Tio
Published in: Nature Astronomy, Issue 4/11, 2020, Page(s) 1102-1110, ISSN 2397-3366
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-020-1132-1

A Novel Approach to Constrain Rotational Mixing and Convective-core Overshoot in Stars Using the Initial–Final Mass Relation

Author(s): Jeffrey D. Cummings, Jason S. Kalirai, Jieun Choi, C. Georgy, P.-E. Tremblay, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 871/1, 2019, Page(s) L18, ISSN 2041-8213
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aafc2d

Gravity and limb-darkening coefficients for compact stars: DA, DB, and DBA eclipsing white dwarfs

Author(s): A. Claret, E. Cukanovaite, K. Burdge, P.-E. Tremblay, S. Parsons, T. R. Marsh
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 634, 2020, Page(s) A93, ISSN 0004-6361
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201937326

From hydrogen to helium: the spectral evolution of white dwarfs as evidence for convective mixing

Author(s): Tim Cunningham, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo, Mark Hollands, Elena Cukanovaite
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 492/3, 2020, Page(s) 3540-3552, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz3638

Orbital Decay in a 20 Minute Orbital Period Detached Binary with a Hydrogen-poor Low-mass White Dwarf

Author(s): Kevin B. Burdge, Jim Fuller, E. Sterl Phinney, Jan van Roestel, Antonio Claret, Elena Cukanovaite, Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo, Michael W. Coughlin, David L. Kaplan, Thomas Kupfer, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Richard G. Dekany, Dmitry A. Duev, Michael Feeney, Reed Riddle, S. R. Kulkarni, Thomas A. Prince
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 886/1, 2019, Page(s) L12, ISSN 2041-8213
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab53e5

Gaia white dwarfs within 40 pc II: the volume-limited Northern hemisphere sample

Author(s): Jack McCleery, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo, Mark A Hollands, Boris T Gänsicke, Paula Izquierdo, Silvia Toonen, Tim Cunningham, Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 499/2, 2020, Page(s) 1890-1908, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2030

Convective overshoot and macroscopic diffusion in pure-hydrogen-atmosphere white dwarfs

Author(s): Tim Cunningham, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Bernd Freytag, Hans-Günter Ludwig, Detlev Koester
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 488 / 2, 2019, Page(s) 2503–2522, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1759

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4MOST Consortium Survey 3: Milky Way Disc and Bulge Low-Resolution Survey (4MIDABLE-LR)

Author(s): C. Chiappini, I. Minchev, E. Starkenburg, F. Anders, N. Gentile Fusillo, O. Gerhard, G. Guiglion, A. Khalatyan, G. Kordopatis, B. Lemasle, G. Matijevic, A.B. de Andrade Queiroz, A. Schwope, M. Steinmetz, J. Storm, G. Traven, P.-E. Tremblay, M. Valentini, R. Andrae, A. Arentsen, M. Asplund, T. Bensby, M. Bergemann, L. Casagrande, R. Church, G. Cescutti, S. Feltzing, M. Fouesneau, E.K. Grebel, M. Ko
Published in: The Messenger, Issue 175, 2015, Page(s) 30-34
DOI: 10.18727/0722-6691/5122