TY - JOUR T1 - Investigating the Colour-Magnitude Relations for White Dwarf Stars in SDSS Photometry AU - Çalışkan, Özcan AU - Gökmen, Sevinç PY - 2025 DA - June Y2 - 2025 DO - 10.26650/PAR.2025.00001 JF - Physics and Astronomy Reports PB - İstanbul Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 2980-3012 SP - 13 EP - 20 VL - 3 IS - 1 LA - en AB - In this study, colour-magnitude relations (CMRs) for DA-type white dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometric system were investigated. For this purpose, the SDSS data for 20,247 white dwarf stars, as provided in the study by Anguiano et al. (2017), were matched with the Gaia third data release (Gaia DR3) catalogue to obtain trigonometric parallax (𝜛) data. The SDSS ugriz magnitudes of the stars were corrected for interstellar extinction using dust maps provided for the Milky Way, and distances from the Sun to the stars were calculated. 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