Spectroscopic follow-up of ultraviolet-excess objects selected from the UVEX survey

Verbeek, Kars; Groot, Paul J.; Scaringi, Simone; Napiwotzki, Ralf; Spikings, Ben; Østensen, Roy H.; Drew, Janet E.; Steeghs, Danny; Casares, J.; Corral-Santana, J. M.; Corradi, R. L. M.; Deacon, Niall; Drake, Jeremy J.; Gänsicke, Boris T.; González-Solares, Eduardo; Greimel, Robert; Heber, Ulrich; Irwin, Mike J.; Knigge, Christian; Nelemans, Gijs
Bibliographical reference

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 426, Issue 2, pp. 1235-1261.

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2012
Number of authors
20
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3
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17
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Description
We present the results of the first spectroscopic follow-up of 132 optically blue ultraviolet (UV)-excess sources selected from the UV-Excess Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane (UVEX). The UV-excess spectra are classified into different populations and grids of model spectra are fitted to determine spectral types, temperatures, surface gravities and reddening. From this initial spectroscopic follow-up 95 per cent of the UV-excess candidates turn out to be genuine UV-excess sources such as white dwarfs, white dwarf binaries, subdwarf types O and B, emission-line stars and quasi stellar objects. The remaining sources are classified as slightly reddened main-sequence stars with spectral types later than A0V. The fraction of DA white dwarfs is 47 per cent with reddening smaller than E(B ‑ V) ≤ 0.7 mag. Relations between the different populations and their UVEX photometry, Galactic latitude and reddening are shown. A larger fraction of UVEX white dwarfs is found at magnitudes fainter than g > 17 and Galactic latitude smaller than |b| < 4 compared to main-sequence stars, blue horizontal branch stars and subdwarfs.
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