List of white dwarfs
This is a list of exceptional white dwarfs.
Firsts
These were the first white dwarfs discovered fitting these conditions
Title | Star | Date | Data | Comments | Notes | Refs | |
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First discovered | Sirius B | 1852 | Sirius B is also the nearest white dwarf (as of 2005) | [1][2] | |||
First found in a binary star system | Sirius B | 1852 | Sirius system | [1][2] | |||
First double white dwarf system | LDS 275 | 1944 | L 462-56 system | [3] | |||
First solitary white dwarf | |||||||
First white dwarf in a planetary system | |||||||
First white dwarf with a planet | WD B1620-26 | 2003 | PSR B1620-26 b (planet) | This planet is a circumbinary planet, which circles both stars in the PSR B1620-26 system | [4][5] | ||
First white dwarf with an orbitting planet | As of 2013, no planets have been found orbitting only a white dwarf | [6] | |||||
Extremes
These are the white dwarfs which are currently known to fit these conditions
Title | Star | Date | Data | Comments | Notes | Refs | |
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Nearest | Sirius B | 1852 | 8.6 ly (2.6 pc) | Sirius B is also the first white dwarf discovered. | See also: § Nearest |
[1][2] | |
Furthest | SN UDS10Wil progenitor | 2013 | z=1.914 | SN Wilson is a type-Ia supernova whose progenitor was a white dwarf | [7][8][9] | ||
Farthest extant | |||||||
Oldest | |||||||
Youngest | |||||||
Highest surface temperature | RX J0439.8−6809 | 2015 | 250,000 K (250,000 °C; 450,000 °F) | This star is located in the Milky Way's galactic halo, in the field of the Large Magellanic Cloud | [10][11] | ||
Lowest surface temperature | PSR J2222-0137B | 2014 | 3,000 K (2,700 C°, 4,892 F°) | [12] | |||
Most luminous | |||||||
Least luminous | |||||||
Brightest apparent | |||||||
Dimmest apparent | |||||||
Most massive | |||||||
Least massive | |||||||
Largest | |||||||
Smallest | |||||||
Nearest
Star | Distance | Comments | Notes | Refs | |
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Sirius B | 8.58 ly (2.63 pc) | Sirius B is also the first white dwarf discovered. It is part of the Sirius system. | [1][2][13][14] | ||
Procyon B | 11.43 ly (3.50 pc) | Part of Procyon system | [13][14] | ||
van Maanen's Star | 14.04 ly (4.30 pc) | [13][14] | |||
GJ 440 | 15.09 ly (4.63 pc) | [13] | |||
40 Eridani B | 16.25 ly (4.98 pc) | Part of 40 Eridani system | [13][14] | ||
Stein 2051 B | 18.06 ly (5.54 pc) | Part of Stein 2051 system | [13][14] | ||
LP 44-113 | 20.0 ly (6.1 pc) | [14] | |||
G 99-44 | 20.9 ly (6.4 pc) | [14] | |||
L 97-12 | 25.8 ly (7.9 pc) | [14] | |||
Wolf 489 | 26.7 ly (8.2 pc) | [14] | |||
Star | Date | Distance | Comments | Notes | Refs | |
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Sirius B | 1852— | 8.6 ly (2.6 pc) | Sirius B is also the first white dwarf discovered | [1][2] | ||
Notes
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Atlas of the Universe, "The Universe within 12.5 Light Years: The Nearest Stars", Richard Powell, 30 July 2006 (accessed 2010-11-01)
- 1 2 3 4 5 BBC News, "Hubble finds mass of white dwarf", Christine McGourty, 14 December 2005 (accessed 2010-11-01)
- ↑ W. J. Luyten (September 1944). "Note on the Double White Dwarf L 462-56 = LDS 275". Astrophysical Journal. 100: 202. Bibcode:1944ApJ...100..202L. doi:10.1086/144658.
- ↑ Steinn Sigurdsson; Harvey B. Richer; Brad M. Hansen; Ingrid H. Stairs; Stephen E. Thorsett (July 2003). "A Young White Dwarf Companion to Pulsar B1620-26: Evidence for Early Planet Formation". Science. 301 (5630): 193–196. arXiv:astro-ph/0307339. Bibcode:2003Sci...301..193S. doi:10.1126/science.1086326. PMID 12855802.
- ↑ "Looking for planets around white dwarfs". Professor Astronomy. 20 August 2010.
- ↑ Amanda Doyle (25 February 2013). "Detecting Life on Planets that Orbit White Dwarf Stars". AstroBiology Magazine.
- ↑ Jason Major (5 April 2013). "Hubble Spots the Most Distant Supernova Ever". Discovery Channel.
- ↑ "CANDELS Finds the Most Distant Type Ia Supernova Yet Observed". Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). 23 April 2013.
- ↑ David O. Jones; Steven A. Rodney; Adam G. Riess; Bahram Mobasher; Tomas Dahlen; Curtis McCully; Teddy F. Frederiksen; Stefano Casertano; Jens Hjorth; Charles R. Keeton; Anton Koekemoer; Louis-Gregory Strolger; Tommy G. Wiklind; Peter Challis; Or Graur; Brian Hayden; Brandon Patel; Benjamin J. Weiner; Alexei V. Filippenko; Peter Garnavich; Saurabh W. Jha; Robert P. Kirshner; Henry C. Ferguson; Norman A. Grogin; Dale Kocevski (2 April 2013). "The Discovery of the Most Distant Known Type Ia Supernova at Redshift 1.914". The Astrophysical Journal (published May 2013). 768 (2): 166. arXiv:1304.0768. Bibcode:2013ApJ...768..166J. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/768/2/166. 166.
- ↑ Universitaet Tübingen (24 November 2015). "The hottest white dwarf in the Galaxy". Science Daily.
- ↑ K. Werner; T. Rauch (29 September 2015). "Analysis of HST/COS spectra of the bare C–O stellar core H1504+65 and a high-velocity twin in the Galactic halo". Astronomy and Astrophysics (published December 2015). 584: A19. arXiv:1509.08942. Bibcode:2015A&A...584A..19W. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201527261. A19.
- ↑ Kaplan, David L.; Boyles, Jason; Dunlap, Bart H.; Tendulkar, Shriharsh P.; Deller, Adam T.; Ransom, Scott M.; McLaughlin, Maura A.; Lorimer, Duncan R.; Stairs, Ingrid H. (2014-07-01). "A 1.05 M &sun; Companion to PSR J2222-0137: The Coolest Known White Dwarf?". The Astrophysical Journal. 789: 119. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/789/2/119. ISSN 0004-637X.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 David Taylor (2012). "White Dwarf Stars Near The Earth" (PDF). The Life and Death of Stars. Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences - Northwestern University.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "White dwarfs within 10 parsecs". Sol Station. 2011.
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