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Far Ultraviolet Observations of Hot DA White Dwarfs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

David Finley ,
Gibor Basri  and
Stuart Bowyer
David Finley
Affiliation:
Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Gibor Basri
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of California, Berkeley
Stuart Bowyer
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department and Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

Abstract

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Far ultraviolet (FUV) fluxes have been used for determining the effective temperatures of a number of DA white dwarfs hotter than 20,000 K. The spectra were obtained with the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE). The analysis consisted of comparing the observed FUV fluxes with model fluxes scaled to the V-band flux. After suitable corrections were performed for the time-dependent sensitivity degradation of the IUE, it was found that the available flux calibrations for the IUE were insufficiently accurate for precise temperature determinations. Accordingly, we used seven white dwarfs for which accurate, independent temperature determinations have been made from line profile analyses to improve the accuracy of the IUE flux calibration. The correction to the original calibration was as great as 20% in individual 5-Å wavelength bins, while the average over the IUE wavelength range was 5%. We present both our IUE flux correction and the temperatures obtained for the hot white dwarfs.

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Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 114: White Dwarfs , 1989 , pp. 139 - 143
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1989

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