{
  "id": "1703.09714",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2017-03-28T18:00:04.000Z",
  "updated": "2017-03-28T18:00:04.000Z",
  "title": "A catalogue of white dwarf candidates in VST ATLAS",
  "authors": [
    "Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo",
    "Roberto Raddi",
    "Boris T. Gänsicke",
    "J. J. Hermes",
    "Anna F. Pala",
    "Joshua T. Fuchs",
    "Ben Chehade",
    "Nigel Metcalfe",
    "Tom Shanks"
  ],
  "comment": "Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 11 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables. The full catalogue presented in table 4 is available for download at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/astro/research/catalogues/ATLAS_WDcatalogue_submission.csv",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.SR"
  ],
  "abstract": "The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has created a knowledge gap between the Northern and the Southern hemispheres which is very marked for white dwarfs: only $\\simeq 15$% of the known white dwarfs are south of the equator. Here we make use of the VST ATLAS survey, one of the first surveys obtaining deep, optical, multi-band photometry over a large area of the southern skies, to remedy this situation. Applying the colour and proper-motion selection developed in Gentile Fusillo et al. (2015a) to the most recent internal data release (2016 April 25) of VST ATLAS we created a catalogue of $\\simeq 4200$ moderately bright ($g\\leq19$), high-confidence southern white dwarf candidates, which can be followed up individually with both the large array of southern telescopes or in bulk with forthcoming multi-object spectrographs.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2017-03-28T18:00:04.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "sloan digital sky survey",
      "high-confidence southern white dwarf candidates",
      "vst atlas survey",
      "first surveys obtaining deep"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 11,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}