7–11 Jul 2025
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Long term spectral monitoring of a small sample of white dwarfs

11 Jul 2025, 15:30
10m
TLC117

TLC117

Talk The UK White Dwarf Community: An Opportunity to Connect The UK White Dwarf Community: An Opportunity to Connect

Description

We present high resolution archive spectra of four white dwarfs taken over a period of 25 years. The observations were taken with ESOs Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph (UVES) and there are between 400 and 625 spectra per wavelength setting per star. The primary aims of the study are to search for changes in interstellar lines and those in the Earth's atmosphere as a function of epoch, but the same observations may also be used to search for metal lines in the WDs and their possible variation.

Author

Jonathan Smoker (Very Large Telesope, European Southern Observatory)

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