A survey for radio emission from white dwarfs in the VLA Sky Survey

Author:

Pelisoli Ingrid1ORCID,Chomiuk Laura2,Strader Jay2,Marsh T R1ORCID,Aydi Elias2ORCID,Dage Kristen C3ORCID,Kyer Rebecca2,Molina Isabella2,Panurach Teresa24,Urquhart Ryan2,Maccarone Thomas J5,Rich R Michael6ORCID,Rodriguez Antonio C7,Breedt E8ORCID,Brown A J910ORCID,Dhillon V S1011ORCID,Dyer M J10ORCID,Gaensicke Boris T1ORCID,Garbutt J A10ORCID,Green M J1213ORCID,Kennedy M R14ORCID,Kerry P10,Littlefair S P10ORCID,Munday James115ORCID,Parsons S G10ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics, University of Warwick , Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL , UK

2. Center for Data Intensive and Time Domain Astronomy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University , East Lansing, MI 48824 , USA

3. Department of Physics & Astronomy, Wayne State University, 666 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI 48201 , USA

4. Norfolk State University , 700 Park Avenue, Norfolk, VA 23504 USA

5. Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas Tech University , Box 41051, Lubbock, TX 79409-1051 , USA

6. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California , Los Angeles, CA 90095 , USA

7. Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology , 1200 E. California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125 , USA

8. Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge , Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA , UK

9. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya , c/Esteve Terrades 5, 08860 Castelldefels , Spain

10. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hicks Building, The University of Sheffield , Sheffield S3 7RH , UK

11. Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) , E-38205 La Laguna, Tenerife , Spain

12. Max – Planck – Institut für Astronomie , Königstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg , Germany

13. Department of Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv 6997801 , Israel

14. Department of Physics, University College Cork , Cork , Ireland

15. Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes , Apartado de Correos 321, Santa Cruz de La Palma E-38700 , Spain

Abstract

ABSTRACT Radio emission has been detected from tens of white dwarfs, in particular in accreting systems. Additionally, radio emission has been predicted as a possible outcome of a planetary system around a white dwarf. We searched for 3 GHz radio continuum emission in 846 000 candidate white dwarfs previously identified in Gaia using the Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) Epoch 1 Quick Look Catalogue. We identified 13 candidate white dwarfs with a counterpart in VLASS within 2 arcsec. Five of those were found not to be white dwarfs in follow-up or archival spectroscopy, whereas seven others were found to be chance alignments with a background source in higher resolution optical or radio images. The remaining source, WDJ204259.71+152108.06, is found to be a white dwarf and M-dwarf binary with an orbital period of 4.1 d and long-term stochastic optical variability, as well as luminous radio and X-ray emission. For this binary, we find no direct evidence of a background contaminant, and a chance alignment probability of only ≈2 per cent. However, other evidence points to the possibility of an unfortunate chance alignment with a background radio and X-ray emitting quasar, including an unusually poor Gaia DR3 astrometric solution for this source. With at most one possible radio emitting white dwarf found, we conclude that strong (≳1–3 mJy) radio emission from white dwarfs in the 3 GHz band is virtually non-existent outside of interacting binaries.

Funder

National Science Foundation

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

NASA

Packard Foundation

European Research Council

Science and Technology Facilities Council

Canada Foundation for Innovation

National Research Council

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

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