Photometric constraints on white dwarfs and the identification of extreme objects

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 399, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 699-714

  Mortlock, Daniel J ^a,b   Peiris, Hiranya V ^b,c   Ivezić, Željkoć ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Methods: statistical; Surveys; White dwarfs

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; PHOTOMETRY;

ASTROMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE; INTRINSIC PROPERTY; MAIN SEQUENCE STARS; METHODS:STATISTICAL; PHOTOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; PHOTOMETRICS; SOLID ANGLE; SPECTRA'S; SURFACE GRAVITY;

WHITE DWARFS;

EID: 70349871589     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15351.x     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Alcock C. et al., 2000, ApJ, 542, 281
2. Beauchamp A., Wesemael F., Bergeron P., Liebert J., Saffer R. A., 1996, in Jeffery C. S., Heber U., eds, ASP Conf. Ser. Vol. 96, Hydrogen Deficient Stars. Astron. Soc. Pac., San Francisco 295
3. Bergeron P., Leggett S. K., 2002, ApJ, 580, 1070
4. Bergeron P., Saffer R. A., Liebert J., 1992, ApJ, 394, 228
5. Bergeron P., Wesemael F., Beauchamp A., 1995, PASP, 107, 1047
6. Bergeron P., Ruiz M. T., Leggett S. K., 1997, ApJS, 108, 339
7. Bergeron P., Leggett S. K., Ruiz M. T., 2001, ApJS, 133, 413
8. Bergeron P., Wesemael F., Fontaine G., Liebert J., 1990, ApJ, 351, L21
9. Bramich D. M. et al., 2008, MNRAS, 386, 887
10. Carollo D. et al., 2006, A&A, 448, 579
11. Chabrier G., 1999, ApJ, 513, L103
12. Eisenstein D. J. et al., 2006, ApJS, 167, 40
13. Engelbrecht A., Koester D., 2007, in Napiwotzki R., Burleigh M. R., eds, ASP Conf. Ser. Vol. 372, 15th European Workshop on White Dwarfs. Astron. Soc. Pac., San Francisco 289
14. Finley D. S., Koester D., Basri G., 1997, ApJ, 488, 375
15. Flaugher B. et al., 2006, BAAS, 38, 928
16. Fontaine G., Brassard P., Bergeron P., 2001, PASP, 113, 409
17. Fontaine G., Bergeron P., Brassard P., 2005, in Sion E. M., Vennes S., Shipman H. L., eds, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Vol. 332, White dwarfs: Cosmological and Galactic Probes. Springer, Dordrecht 3
18. Gates E. et al., 2004, ApJ, 612, L129
19. Gelman A., Rubin D., 1992, Statistical Science, 7, 457
20. Gilks W. R., Richardson S., Spiegelhalter D. J., 1999, Markov Chain Monte Carlo In Practice. Chapman and HallCRC, Boca Raton
21. Hansen B. M. S., 2001, ApJ, 558, L39
22. Harris H. C., Dahn C. C., Vrba F. J., Henden A. A., Liebert J., Schmidt G. D., Reid I. N., 1999, ApJ, 524, 1000
23. Harris H. C. et al., 2003, AJ, 126, 1023
24. Harris H. C. et al., 2006, AJ, 131, 571
25. Harris H. C. et al., 2008, ApJ, 679, 697
26. Hastings W. K., 1970, Biometrika, 57, 97
27. Hodgkin S. T., Oppenheimer B. R., Hambly N. C., Jameson R. F., Smartt S. J., Steele I. A., 2000, Nat, 403, 57
28. Hogg D. W., Blanton M. R., Roweis S. T., Johnston K. V., 2005, ApJ, 629, 268
29. Holberg J. B., Bergeron P., 2006, AJ, 132, 1221
30. Holberg J. B., Sion E. M., Oswalt T., McCook G. P., Foran S., Subasavage J. P., 2008, AJ, 135, 1225
31. Ibata R., Irwin M., Bienaymé O., Scholz R., Guibert J., 2000, ApJ, 532, L41
32. Ivezić. et al., 2007, AJ, 134, 973
33. Ivezić. et al., 2008, preprint (arXiv:0805.2366)
34. Jaynes T. T., 2003, Probability Theory: The Logic Of Science. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge
35. Jordan S., 2007, in Napiwotzki R., Burleigh M. R., eds, ASP Conf. Ser. Vol. 372, 15th European Workshop on White Dwarfs. Astron. Soc. Pac., San Francisco 139
36. Jurić M. et al., 2008, ApJ, 673, 864
37. Kaiser N. et al., 2002, in Tyson J. A., Wolff S., eds, SPIE Conf. Ser., Vol. 4836. p. 154
38. Keller S. C. et al., 2007, PASA, 24, 1
39. Kilic M. et al., 2006, AJ, 131, 582
40. Kleinman S. J. et al., 2004, ApJ, 607, 426
41. Lawrence A. et al., 2007, MNRAS, 379, 1599
42. Leggett S. K., Ruiz M. T., Bergeron P., 1998, ApJ, 497, 294
43. Liebert J., Bergeron P., Holberg J. B., 2005, ApJS, 156, 47
44. McCook G. P., Sion E. M., 1999, ApJS, 121, 1
45. Maíz-Apellániz J., 2001, AJ, 121, 2737
46. Mestel L., 1952, MNRAS, 112, 583
47. Metropolis N., Rosenbluth A. W., Rosenbluth M. N., Teller A. H., Teller E., 1953, J. Chemical Phys., 21, 1087
48. Neal R. M., 1993, Probabilistic Inference Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods, http://www.cs.toronto.edu/∼radford/ftp/review.pdf
49. Oppenheimer B. R., Hambly N. C., Digby A. P., Hodkins S. T., Saumon D., 2001a, Sci, 292, 698
50. Oppenheimer B. R. et al., 2001b, ApJ, 550, 448
51. Pauli E.-M., Napiwotzki R., Heber U., Altmann M., Odenkirchen M., 2006, A&A, 447, 173
52. Perryman M. A. C. et al., 2001, A&A, 369, 339
53. Reid I. N., 2005, ARA&A, 43, 247
54. Salim S., Rich R. M., Hansen B. M., Koopmans L. V. E., Oppenheimer B. R., Blandford R. D., 2004, ApJ, 601, 1075
55. Scranton R., Connolly A. J., Szalay A. S., Lupton R. H., Johnston D., Budavari T., Brinkman J., Fukugita M., 2005, AJ, submitted
56. Sesar B. et al., 2007, AJ, 134, 2236
57. Smolić V. et al., 2004, ApJ, 615, L141
58. Torres S., García-Berro E., Isern J., Figueras F., 2005, MNRAS, 360, 1381
59. Vidrih S. et al., 2007, MNRAS, 382, 515 (V07)
60. Voss B., Koester D., Napiwotzki R., Christlieb N., Reimers D., 2007, A&A, 470, 1079
61. Wood M. A., 1992, ApJ, 386, 539
62. York D. G. et al., 2000, AJ, 120, 1579