A new hot DA white dwarf in a region of exceptionally low HI density
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We report the discovery of the hot DA white dwarf RE 0457- 281 which has the lowest line-of-sight neutral hydrogen column density yet measured. The star was found independently by the ROSAT EUV, Montreal-Cambridge-Tololo and Edinburgh-Cape surveys. With an effective temperature of 60 700 K and very soft EUV spectrum, this white dwarf resembles the well-studied hot DA white dwarf G 191- B2B. A follow-up observation made using the Voyager 2 UV spectrometer reveals a strong continuum shortward of ...
We report the discovery of the hot DA white dwarf RE 0457- 281 which has the lowest line-of-sight neutral hydrogen column density yet measured. The star was found independently by the ROSAT EUV, Montreal-Cambridge-Tololo and Edinburgh-Cape surveys. With an effective temperature of 60 700 K and very soft EUV spectrum, this white dwarf resembles the well-studied hot DA white dwarf G 191- B2B. A follow-up observation made using the Voyager 2 UV spectrometer reveals a strong continuum shortward of the 912-Å Lyman limit from which we deduce that the neutral hydrogen column density is 1.3 x 1O 17 atom cm-². ...
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. London. Vol. 267, no. 3 (Apr. 1994), p. 647-652
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