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
The Gaia White Dwarf Revolution ESA/Gaia/DPAC