The Gaia White Dwarf Revolution

 

ESA/Gaia/DPAC

The Gaia White Dwarf Revolution

 

ESA/Gaia/DPAC

HR Diagram

 

Cheng et al. 2019

Gaia Collaboration et al. 2018

  • > 1.3 Million WD candidates (Gentile Fusillo et al. 2021)
  • Crystallization and 22Ne distillation

WD Binaries

 

Gaia14aae (Green et al. 2017)

 First Fully-Eclipsing AM CVn

Volume Limited CV Sample [1,2]:

  • Massive WDs (0.8 M)
  • Low space density
  • Population for LISA [3]

[1] Pala et al. 2020

[2] Abril et al. 2019

[3] Scaringi et al. 2023

Exotic WDs

 

Find and characterize WD planets [1]

Supernova Survivor [3,4]

Janus the two faced WD [2]

[1] Hollands et al. 2021

[2] Caiazzo et al. 2023

[3] Boubert et al. 2017

[4] Gansicke et al. 2020

GaiaWD

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GaiaWD

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