| Issue |
A&A
Volume 379, Number 1, November III 2001
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 215 - 223 | |
| Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20011269 | |
| Published online | 15 November 2001 | |
Spectroscopy of white dwarf candidates from the ESO Imaging Survey (EIS-WIDE)*
Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Universität Kiel, 24098 Kiel, Germany e-mail: wolff@astrophysik.uni-kiel.de
Corresponding author: D. Koester, koester@astrophysik.uni-kiel.de
Received:
30
March
2001
Accepted:
6
September
2001
In the ESO Imaging Survey of a 1.27 square degree field in
the direction of the south galactic pole ("patch B" ) 32 point
sources were identified as white dwarf candidates in the 
vs. 
two-color diagram by the EIS team and published as a
candidate catalog. One of these was a previously known
quasar. We have obtained low resolution spectra of 30 of the remaining
sources. Of these only 6 are DA white dwarfs, one is a DQ white dwarf,
one a DC. 11 candidates are quasars with redshifts between 1.4 and
3.3. The remaining sources are stars with narrow Balmer lines, in most
cases probably field horizontal branch stars.
Key words: stars: white dwarfs / quasars: general
© ESO, 2001
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