backAn Extremely Hot Pulsating Pre-White Dwarf from OGLE
We show that the blue 18.3-minute variable object discovered in the Galactic disk by the OGLE-III survey and named OGLE-GD-WD-0001 is a pulsating pre-white dwarf of PG 1159 spectral type. With an effective temperature of about 160,000 K it is among the hottest known pulsators being located close to the blue edge of the GW Virginis instability strip. The long-term OGLE observations indicate that the object has a positive period change rate of about 5 × 10-10 s s−1 and thus already contracts.
OGLE-III I-band time-series data for object OGLE-GD-WD-0001 and results of the frequency analysis: distribution of the observations in time (top panel), cadence of the observations shown as a histogram of time differences between two subsequent exposures (second panel from the top), phase-folded original and pre-whitened light curves together with the power spectra (lower panels). The frequency is given in cycles per day.
Normalized spectrum of OGLE-GD-WD-0001 together with the best fit.
The underlying OGLE-III photometry data are available to the astronomical community from the OGLE Internet Archive.
PLEASE cite the following paper when using the data or referring to these OGLE results:
Pietrukowicz et al., 2025, , The Astronomical Journal, arXiv:2502.17577
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