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白矮星$Gaia$数据发布2星表及其与SDSS的比较

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

Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Boris T. Gänsicke, Christopher J. Manser, Tim Cunningham, Elena Cukanovaite, Mark Hollands, Thomas Marsh,… 展开作者

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

摘要:

我们提出了一个从$Gaia$(DR 2)的第二次数据发布中选择的白矮星候选者目录。我们使用了斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)光谱确认的白矮星样本,在$Gaia$赫兹斯普朗-罗素图中绘制了这些物体所跨越的整个空间。然后,我们定义了一组绝对幅度,颜色和一些$Gaia$质量标志的削减,以消除大多数污染对象。最后,我们采用一种类似于我们早期的SDSS测光表中提出的方法来计算所有通过初始选择的$Gaia$源成为白矮星($P_{\mathrm{WD}}$)的概率。最后的目录是由$486\,641$恒星计算的$P_{\mathrm{WD}}$,从它是可能的选择一个样本的$\simeq 260\,000$高置信度白矮星候选人的星等范围$8<G<21$。通过比较这个目录与SDSS白矮星候选者的样本,我们估计的$85$的完整性的上限百分比的白矮星与$G \leq 20$马格和$T_{\mathrm{eff}} > 7000$ K,在银河系高纬度($|b|>20^{\circ}$)。然而,在银河系的低纬度地区,星表的完整性会下降,星表的星等极限会随着PDMATHAMM的扫描定律而在整个天空中发生显著的变化。我们还提供了我们的样品中的对象列表与可用的SDSS光谱。我们用这个光谱样品描述了在H-R图上观察到的白矮星分布结构。

英文摘要:

We present a catalogue of white dwarf candidates selected from the second data release of $Gaia$ (DR2). We used a sample of spectroscopically confirmed white dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to map the entire space spanned by these objects in the $Gaia$ Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. We then defined a set of cuts in absolute magnitude, colour, and a number of $Gaia$ quality flags to remove the majority of contaminating objects. Finally, we adopt a method analogous to the one presented in our earlier SDSS photometric catalogues to calculate a probability of being a white dwarf ($P_{\mathrm{WD}}$) for all $Gaia$ sources which passed the initial selection. The final catalogue is composed of $486\,641$ stars with calculated $P_{\mathrm{WD}}$ from which it is possible to select a sample of $\simeq 260\,000$ high-confidence white dwarf candidates in the magnitude range $8<G<21$. By comparing this catalogue with a sample of SDSS white dwarf candidates we estimate an upper limit in completeness of $85$ per cent for white dwarfs with $G \leq 20$ mag and $T_{\mathrm{eff}} > 7000$ K, at high Galactic latitudes ($|b|>20^{\circ}$). However, the completeness drops at low Galactic latitudes, and the magnitude limit of the catalogue varies significantly across the sky as a function of $Gaia$'s scanning law. We also provide the list of objects within our sample with available SDSS spectroscopy. We use this spectroscopic sample to characterise the observed structure of the white dwarf distribution in the H-R diagram.

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