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Discovery of a nearby halo white dwarf with proper motion mu=2.55 arcsec/yr | | Sebastien Lepine
; R. Michael Rich
; Michael M. Shara
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4 Oct 2005 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Abstract: | We report the discovery of PM J13420-3415, a faint (V=17) white dwarf with a very high proper motion mu = 2.55 arcsec/yr. The star was found in the southern sky extension of the SUPERBLINK proper motion survey. A red spectrum shows the classical signature of a DA white dwarf, with a weak H-alpha line in absorption as the only prominent feature. The star is also found to have a large radial velocity V_rad = +212+/-15 km/s. At the adopted distance of 18 pc, the star has a very large space motion of 313 km/s relative to the Sun. An integration of the space motion shows that the star is on a nearly polar Galactic orbit, and is thus an unambiguous member of the Galactic halo. However, with an estimated effective temperature 5,000K < T_eff < 5,500K, the white dwarf appears to be much younger than expected for a denizen of the halo. The apparent paradox can be explained if the white dwarf is the relatively young (~2 Gyr) remnant of a longer-lived (10-14 Gyr) main sequence star, in which case the object is predicted to be a low-mass white dwarf with M ~ 0.45 M_sun. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0510101 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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