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Hard X-ray emission from white dwarfs

Listed in IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory)

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Inspired by the hard X-ray emission from WD 2226-210, the central star of the Helix Nebula, we have made a systematic search for similar sources by correlating the white dwarf catalog of McCook & Sion (1999, See Cat. <III/235>) and the ROSAT Position Senstive Proportional Counter (PSPC) point-source catalog of White et al. (2000, Cat. <IX/31>). We find 76 white dwarfs coincident with X-ray sources at a high level of confidence.

Among these sources, 17 show significant hard X-ray emission at energies greater than 0.5keV. Twelve of these white dwarfs with hard X-ray emission are in known binary systems, in two of which the accretion of the close companion's material onto the white dwarf produces hard X-ray emission, and in the other 10 the late-type companions' coronal activity emits hard X-rays. One apparently single white dwarf is projected near an active galactic nucleus that is responsible for the hard X-ray emission.

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The remaining four white dwarfs and two additional white dwarfs with hard X-ray emission appear single.

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Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
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IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory)ivo://cds.vizier/j/aj/125/223910 d agoJSON v1
FieldAssertionExtractorEvidence
access_levelsource · IVOA Registryconnector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:astronomymapping · IVOA Registryconnector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0
concepts[modality].ivoa_waveband:x-raysource · IVOA Registryconnector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0
descriptionsource · IVOA Registryconnector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0rr.resource.res_description
license_textsource · IVOA Registryconnector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0
publication_datesource · IVOA Registryconnector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0
titlesource · IVOA Registryconnector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0rr.resource.res_title
updated_datesource · IVOA Registryconnector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0