A Catalog of 531 White Dwarf Candidates in the Local Galactic Halo from Gaia Data Release 2
Bokyoung Kim, Sebastien L\'epine, Ilija Medan

TL;DR
This paper presents a catalog of 531 white dwarf candidates in the local Galactic halo identified using Gaia DR2 data, focusing on high proper motion and kinematic properties to include stars with or without reliable parallax measurements.
Contribution
The study introduces a new method combining Gaia and PanSTARRS data to identify halo white dwarf candidates, including those with unreliable or missing parallax data.
Findings
Catalog of 531 white dwarf candidates in the local Galactic halo.
Method effectively includes stars with and without reliable Gaia parallaxes.
Candidates exhibit high transverse velocities > 200 km/s.
Abstract
We present a catalog of 531 white dwarf candidates that have large apparent transverse motions relative to the Sun ( km s), thus making them likely members of the local Galactic halo population. The candidates were selected from the Gaia Data Release 2, and are located in a great circle with width running across both Galactic poles and Galactic center and anti-center, a zone that spans 17.3% of the sky. The selection used a combination of kinematic and photometric properties, derived primarily from Gaia proper motions, magnitudes, and color, and including parallax whenever available. Additional validation of the white dwarf candidates is made using PanSTARRS photometric () data. Our final catalog includes not only stars having full kinematic and luminosity estimates from reliable Gaia parallax, but also stars with…
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