2017/03/28 by Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo, N. P. Gentile Fusillo, R. Raddi +14
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics #Atlas (anatomy) #Equator #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Latitude #Photometry (optics) #Physics #Proper motion #Sky #Stars #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #White dwarf #astro-ph.SR
paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/mnras/stx777
Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 11 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables. The full catalogue presented in table 4 is available for download at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/astro/research/catalogues/ATLAS_WDcatalogue_submission.csv
arxiv created 2017/03/28 · openalex publication_date 2017/03/28 · arxiv updated 2020/12/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has created a knowledge gap between the Northern and the Southern hemispheres, which is very marked for white dwarfs: Only 15 per cent of the known white dwarfs are south of the equator. Here, we make use of the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) ATLAS survey, one of the first surveys obtaining deep, optical, multiband photometry over a large area of the southern skies, to remedy this situation. Applying the colour and proper-motion selection developed in our previous work on SDSS to the most recent internal data release (2016 April 25) of VST ATLAS, we created a catalogue of 4200 moderately bright (g 19), high-confidence southern white dwarf candidates, which can be followed up individually with both the large array of southern telescopes or in bulk with ESO's forthcoming multi-object spectrograph 4MOST.