Investigating the Colour-Magnitude Relations for White Dwarf Stars in SDSS Photometry

Özcan Çalışkan; Sevinç Gökmen

doi:10.26650/PAR.2025.00001

Investigating the Colour-Magnitude Relations for White Dwarf Stars in SDSS Photometry

Abstract

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. For the calibration of the stars, 5,516 white dwarf stars were selected with apparent magnitudes brighter than 𝑔0 = 21 mag and relative parallax errors measured to better than 𝜎𝜛/𝜛 = 0.1. Subsequently, three separate CMRs were derived for the absolute magnitudes 𝑀g, 𝑀r , and 𝑀i , each calibrated to two-colour indices. The coefficient of determination (𝑅 2 ) of the obtained CMRs are highly reliable in the range of 0.86 to 0.95. Moreover, the standard deviations of the differences between the absolute magnitudes obtained from the relations and the original ones of the calibration stars range from 0.26 to 0.37 mag.

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Primary Language

English

Subjects

Classical Physics (Other)

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Özcan Çalışkan ^*
Türkiye

Sevinç Gökmen This is me
0000-0002-0108-4782
United States

Publication Date

June 24, 2025

Submission Date

March 24, 2025

Acceptance Date

April 29, 2025

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Year 2025 Volume: 3 Number: 1

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https://doi.org/10.26650/PAR.2025.00001

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https://izlik.org/JA73JA92PS

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Çalışkan, Ö., & Gökmen, S. (2025). Investigating the Colour-Magnitude Relations for White Dwarf Stars in SDSS Photometry. Physics and Astronomy Reports, 3(1), 13-20. https://doi.org/10.26650/PAR.2025.00001

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1.Çalışkan Ö, Gökmen S. Investigating the Colour-Magnitude Relations for White Dwarf Stars in SDSS Photometry. Physics and Astronomy Reports. 2025;3(1):13-20. doi:10.26650/PAR.2025.00001

Chicago

Çalışkan, Özcan, and Sevinç Gökmen. 2025. “Investigating the Colour-Magnitude Relations for White Dwarf Stars in SDSS Photometry”. Physics and Astronomy Reports 3 (1): 13-20. https://doi.org/10.26650/PAR.2025.00001.

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Çalışkan Ö, Gökmen S (June 1, 2025) Investigating the Colour-Magnitude Relations for White Dwarf Stars in SDSS Photometry. Physics and Astronomy Reports 3 1 13–20.

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[1]Ö. Çalışkan and S. Gökmen, “Investigating the Colour-Magnitude Relations for White Dwarf Stars in SDSS Photometry”, Physics and Astronomy Reports, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 13–20, June 2025, doi: 10.26650/PAR.2025.00001.

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Çalışkan, Özcan - Gökmen, Sevinç. “Investigating the Colour-Magnitude Relations for White Dwarf Stars in SDSS Photometry”. Physics and Astronomy Reports 3/1 (June 1, 2025): 13-20. https://doi.org/10.26650/PAR.2025.00001.

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1.Çalışkan Ö, Gökmen S. Investigating the Colour-Magnitude Relations for White Dwarf Stars in SDSS Photometry. Physics and Astronomy Reports. 2025;3:13–20.

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Çalışkan, Özcan, and Sevinç Gökmen. “Investigating the Colour-Magnitude Relations for White Dwarf Stars in SDSS Photometry”. Physics and Astronomy Reports, vol. 3, no. 1, June 2025, pp. 13-20, doi:10.26650/PAR.2025.00001.

Vancouver

1.Özcan Çalışkan, Sevinç Gökmen. Investigating the Colour-Magnitude Relations for White Dwarf Stars in SDSS Photometry. Physics and Astronomy Reports. 2025 Jun. 1;3(1):13-20. doi:10.26650/PAR.2025.00001