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White Dwarfs as Probes of Fundamental Physics: Tracers of Planetary, Stellar and Galactic Evolution Martin A. Barstow Scot J. Kleinman Judith L. Provencal Lilia Ferrario Edited by IAU Symposium Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 357 21-25 October 2019 Hilo, Hawaii, USA International Astronomical Union ISSN 1743-9213 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921320001969 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 54.39.106.173, on 31 Aug 2021 at 22:59:58, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at

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White Dwarfs as Probes of Fundamental Physics: Tracers of Planetary, Stellar and Galactic Evolution

Martin A. BarstowScot J. KleinmanJudith L. ProvencalLilia Ferrario

Edited by

White Dwarfs as Probes of Fundamental Physics: Tracers of Planetary, Stellar and Galactic Evolution

White dwarfs are the most numerous members of the stellar graveyard. More than ninety percent of all stars will end their lives as white dwarfs. Research on these objects is fascinating in its own right, requiring developments in atomic data and the study of properties of matter under extreme conditions. However, these studies also have enormous impact on other areas of astrophysics, including: cosmology, the composition of extrasolar planets and fundamental physics. The proceedings of IAU Symposium 357 bring together experts from different branches of science working on white dwarfs, but also astronomers with expertise in a wide range of relevant disciplines. The resulting papers are organized around several key themes: SN Ia progenitors, debris from extrasolar planetary systems, fundamental physics, precision studies of white dwarf structure and stellar physics and Galactic evolution. They provide a framework for guiding the direction of white dwarf research for the next decade.

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical UnionEditor in Chief: Maria Teresa LagoThis series contains the proceedings of major scientific meetings held by the International Astronomical Union. Each volume contains a series of articles on a topic of current interest in astronomy, giving a timely overview of research in the field. With contributions by leading scientists, these books are at a level suitable for research astronomers and graduate students.

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WHITE DWARFS AS PROBES OF FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS:

TRACERS OF PLANETARY, STELLAR AND GALACTIC EVOLUTION

IAU SYMPOSIUM 357

COVER ILLUSTRATION:

Rainbow over Hilo bay, Big Island, Hawai’i, viewed from the Grand Naniloa hotel(credit: Rachel Barstow).

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IAU SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS SERIES

Chief EditorMARIA TERESA LAGO, IAU General Secretary

Universidade do PortoCentro de AstrofısicaRua das Estrelas4150-762 Porto

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EditorJOSE M. RODRIGUEZ ESPINOSA, IAU Assistant General Secretary

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WHITE DWARFS AS PROBES OFFUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS:TRACERS OF PLANETARY,STELLAR AND GALACTIC

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 357th SYMPOSIUM OFTHE INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION

HELD IN HILO, HAWAII, USA21–25 OCTOBER, 2019

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MARTIN A. BARSTOW

University of Leicester, United Kingdom

SCOT J. KLEINMAN

Gemini Observatory, USA

JUDITH L. PROVENCAL

University of Delaware, USA

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LILIA FERRARIO

The Australian National University, Australia

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Table of Contents

Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Type Ia supernova sub-classes and progenitor origin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Ashley J. Ruiter

Convection in common envelopes and the formation of double white dwarfs . . . . . . 16

E. C. Wilson and J. Nordhaus

Double degenerate candidates in the open cluster NGC 6633 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Joseph W. Barnett and Kurtis A. Williams

ANTARES: A gateway to ZTF and LSST alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Chien-Hsiu Lee, Monika Soraisam, Gautham Narayan,Thomas Matheson, Abhijit Saha, Carl Stubens and Nicholas Wolf

Exoplanetary oxygen fugacities from polluted white dwarf stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Alexandra E. Doyle, Beth Klein, Ben Zuckerman, Hilke E. Schlichtingand Edward D. Young

Near-infrared observations of dusty white dwarfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Laura K. Rogers, Siyi Xu, Amy Bonsor, Simon Hodgkin, Kate Y. L. Su,Ted von Hippel and Michael Jura

The search for planet and planetesimal transits of white dwarfs with theZwicky Transient Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Keaton J. Bell

Searching for low-mass companions around white dwarfs and subdwarfs fromKepler field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Jurek Krzesinski and Adam Blokesz

Variation of fundamental constants and white dwarfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Susana J. Landau

Clues to the origin and properties of magnetic white dwarfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Adela Kawka

A new look at magnetic white dwarfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Francois Hardy, Patrick Dufour and Stefan Jordan

Continuous gravitational waves from magnetized white dwarfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Surajit Kalita and Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Laboratory studies of Vacuum Ultra-Violet (VUV) emission spectra of heavyelement ions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

W.-U Lydia Tchang-Brillet, Ali Meftah, Djamel Deghiche,Jean-Francois Wyart, Christian Balanca, Norbert Champion andChristophe Blaess

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Neutral helium line profiles through the simulation of local interactions . . . . . . . . . 89

Patrick Tremblay, Alain Beauchamp and Pierre Bergeron

White-dwarf asteroseismology: An update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Alejandro H. Corsico

Variable white dwarfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

H. L. Shipman

Evolution and asteroseismology of ultra-massive DA white dwarfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

F. C. De Geronimo, A. H. Corsico, M. E. Camisassa and L. G. Althaus

Validation of asteroseismic fitting with the new white dwarf evolution code . . . . . . 114

Agnes Kim

The chemical structure of the hot pulsating DB white dwarf KIC 08626021from asteroseismology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

S. Charpinet, P. Brassard, N. Giammichele and Gilles Fontaine

Searching for ZZ Ceti white dwarfs in the Gaia survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Olivier Vincent, Pierre Bergeron and David Lafreniere

Pulsating white dwarfs and convection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

J. L. Provencal, M. H. Montgomery, H. L. Shipman and The WET Team

Accreting pulsating white dwarfs: Probing heating and rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Paula Szkody, Boris Gansicke, Odette Toloza, Patrick Godon,Edward Sion, Stella Kafka, Keaton Bell, Zachary Vanderbosch andAAVSO observers

QPOs from post-shock accretion column of strongly magnetized accretingwhite dwarfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Prasanta Bera

White dwarfs as advanced physics laboratories. The axion case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Jordi Isern

The real time evolution of post-AGB stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Marcin Hajduk

(Pre)-white dwarf stars as measuring tools for yields of AGB nucleosynthesis . . . . . 158

Lisa Lobling

The spectral evolution of hot white dwarfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Antoine Bedard, Pierre Bergeron and Gilles Fontaine

The spectral evolution of cool white dwarfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Simon Blouin and Patrick Dufour

The completeness of Gaia-selected samples of white dwarfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Terry D. Oswalt, Jay B. Holberg and Edward M. Sion

Two delays in white dwarf evolution revealed by Gaia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Sihao Cheng

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Ensemble evolutionary studies of white dwarfs in open star clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Kurtis A. Williams

New population synthesis approach: The golden path to constrain stellarand galactic physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Nadege Lagarde and Celine Reyle

A catalog of 159,238 white dwarf ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Ted von Hippel, Adam Moss, Isabelle Kloc, Natalie Moticska,Jimmy Sargent, Elliot Robinson, David Stenning, David van Dyk,Elizabeth Jeffery, Morgan Fouesneau and Coryn Bailer-Jones

A Bayesian analysis of white dwarfs in open clusters observed with Gaia . . . . . . . . 192

Elizabeth J. Jeffery, Ted von Hippel, Elliot Robinson, David van Dyk andDavid Stenning

Testing white dwarf cosmochronology using wide double white dwarfs . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Tyler Heintz and JJ Hermes

Statistics of white dwarf properties in intermediate polars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Valery F. Suleimanov, Victor A. Doroshenko and Klaus Werner

Realistic models of Globular Clusters with white dwarfs, neutron stars andblack holes using GPU supercomputer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Bhusan Kayastha, Long Wang, Peter Berczik, Xiaoying Pang,Manuel Arca Sedda, Albrecht Kamlah and Rainer Spurzem

Masses of white dwarfs in symbiotic binaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Kenneth H. Hinkle, Francis C. Fekel, Richard Joyce, Thomas Lebzelterand Oscar Straniero

Four new self-lensing binaries from Kepler : Radial velocity characterizationand astrophysical implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Kento Masuda, Hajime Kawahara, David W. Latham, Allyson Bieryla,Morgan MacLeod, Masanobu Kunitomo, Othman Benomar and Wako Aoki

What can ISM and non-photospheric highly ionised lines in white dwarf spectrareveal about the β CMa tunnel? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Nicolle L. Finch, S. P. Preval, M. A. Barstow, S. L. Casewell, T. Ayres,B. Welsh, M. Bainbridge and N. Reindl

Geometry of nova ejecta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

M. Pavana, G. C. Anupama, Ramya M. Anche, U. S. Kamath andG. Selva Kumar

Main conclusions from Symposium discussions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

M. A. Barstow

Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

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Foreword

IAU Symposium 357 - White Dwarfs as probes of fundamental physics and tracers ofplanetary, stellar and galactic evolution – was held in October 21st to 25th 2019, at theGrand Naniloa hotel in Hilo on the Big Island of Hawai’i, USA. At the time of writingthis foreword, approximately 5 months later, the World is in the middle of the COVID-19crisis. Many communities are confined to their homes, with many of us, working remotely.It is sobering to realise how our usual privilege and freedom to travel the World to meetfellow scientists can be brought to a halt in such a short space of time. It also brings intofocus discussions we had in Hawai’i about how to organise remote meetings to reducecosts and the travel-related carbon footprint of our community.Hawai’i is among the most remote and beautiful places on the planet. This makes it

a wonderful location for a scientific meeting. Participants feel apart from the rest of theworld and the effort of travel encourages long-duration visits. I am very grateful to theLocal Organising Committee for an exceedingly well-organised, fruitful and enjoyablemeeting. Thanks also go to my co-chairs and other members of the Scientific OrganisingCommittee for helping with the original symposium application and devising a vigor-ous scientific programme. All the organisers and participants are grateful to the IAUfor selecting the symposium and supporting the attendance of early career scientists.We would also like to thank the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy(AURA), the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) and the University of Leicester forfinancial support for the meeting organisation and travel. The image chosen for the coverwas fortuitously recorded by my wife Rachel at the opening of the meeting, when thewhole audience was completely distracted from my opening remarks by that stunningrainbow – impossible to compete with. . . but also a fitting and encouraging start to thesymposium.White dwarfs are the most numerous members of the stellar graveyard. Over 90 percent

of all stars currently on the main sequence will end their lives as white dwarfs. As such,they are important laboratories for fundamental studies of the evolution of stars, theformation and history of the Milky Way Galaxy and of planetary systems. Furthermore,white dwarfs give us crucial insights on the behavior of matter at extreme temperaturesand densities. Surveys such as SDSS, SPY and ELM have given us access to an unprece-dented wealth of information on the white dwarf population. Recent studies incorporatingthese databases have initiated a revolution in our understanding of its global propertiesthat will continue to grow with the Gaia data releases and upcoming LSST results.Once a white dwarf is formed, its evolution is only dominated by cooling. As white

dwarfs cool over billions of years, determinations of the age of the oldest and thereforecoolest white dwarfs place limits on the ages of the components of the Galaxy, such asthe thin disk, and the thick disks, the halo, and the system of open and globular clusters.The characteristics, such as temperature and mass, of the white dwarf population containinvaluable information on the star formation history of the Galaxy.White dwarfs are also extremely important indicators for cosmology. Type Ia super-

novae are the standard candles that allow us to study the acceleration history of cosmicexpansion. However, although it is crucial to identify the progenitor systems, the evo-lutionary paths leading to these explosions are still poorly understood. Recent surveyshave begun to reveal the properties of single and double degenerate progenitors, but thepicture is still very unclear and more work is needed.In the past few years, white dwarfs have also begun to influence our understanding of

the evolution of planetary systems. We have strong evidence that some white dwarfs har-bour planets. We now know that white dwarfs can disrupt terrestrial planets, asteroids

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and other minor bodies and the resulting debris is accreted onto the white dwarf. Whitedwarfs have a unique atmospheric characteristic. The high surface gravity (log g∼ 8)naturally leads to chemically pure hydrogen or helium photospheres. This means thatthe spectral features produced by the accreted material are not contaminated by origi-nal abundances. The observed features provide a unique opportunity to study the bulkcomposition of extrasolar planetary material. A subset of accreting white dwarfs containsspectral features of highly ionized heavy elements. Furthermore, accurate measurementsof observed wavelengths can be compared with laboratory measurements to probe thepossible variation of the fine structure constant in a strong gravitational field.White dwarf research is fascinating in its own right, since it requires developments in

atomic data and the study of properties of matter under extreme conditions. However,the impact that these studies have on other areas of astrophysics is also enormous. Thus,the time was ripe to bring together experts from different branches of science so thatthey could share their knowledge and provide feedback to each other.The Symposium was highly interdisciplinary, bringing together not just astronomers

working on white dwarfs, but also astronomers with expertise in a wide range of relevantdisciplines. Such a gathering presented an opportunity to formulate the direction of whitedwarf studies for the next decade.The programme consisted of sessions organized around a number of key themes: SN

Ia progenitors, debris from extrasolar planetary systems, fundamental physics, precisionstudies of white dwarf structure, stellar physics and galactic evolution. Each sessionincluded one or two invited keynote talks plus a number of contributed papers. Time wasset aside for extensive discussion following the sessions associated with each them. Thesewere moderated by members of the SOC, posing a number of questions of the audienceto stimulate the discussion. The nature of such discussions makes them hard to recordin detail, but a number of key points have been extracted and incorporated into a shortconcluding paper in these proceedings.

Martin Barstow – 31st March 2020

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Editors

Martin A. BarstowUniversity of Leicester, United Kingdom

Scot J. KleinmanGemini Observatory, USA

Judith L. ProvencalUniversity of Delaware, USA

Lilia FerrarioThe Australian National University, Australia

Organising Committee

Scientific Organising Committee

SOC Chairs

Martin Barstow University of Leicester, United KingdomBarbara Castanheira-Endl Baylor University/UT Austin, USALilia Ferrario Australian National University, AustraliaS.O. Kepler Universidade Federale do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

SOC Members

Pierre Bergeron University of Montreal, CanadaZhanwen Han Yunnan Observatory, ChinaDaniel Maoz Tel Aviv University, IsraelJayant Murthy Indian Institute of Astrophysics, IndiaJudi Provencal University of Delaware, USALydia Tchang-Brillet Observatoire de Paris/Sorbonne Universite, FranceSiyi Xu Gemini Observatory, USAG. C. Anupama Indian Institute of Astrophysics, IndiaShazreen Mohamed South African Astronomical Observatory, South Africa

Local Organising Committee

LOC Chairs

Siyi Xu Gemini Observatory, USAAtsuko Nitta Gemini Observatory, USAScot Kleinman Gemini Observatory, USASandy Leggett Gemini Observatory, USA

LOC Members

Sarah Casewell University of Leicester, United KingdomChris Stark Gemini Observatory, USATerry Lee Gemini Observatory, USAErik Dennihy Gemini Observatory, USATrent Dupuy Gemini Observatory, USAPeter Michaud Gemini Observatory, USABen Shappee Institute for Astronomy, Manoa, USAAndre-Nicolas Chene Gemini Observatory, USA

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Participants

First Name Last Name Affiliations

Carlos Badenes University of PittsburghAndrzej Baran Cracow Pedagogical UniversityJoseph Barnett Texas A&M University-CommerceMartin Barstow University of LeicesterEvan Bauer UC Santa BarbaraAntoine Bedard Universite de MontrealKeaton Bell University of Texas, AustinPresanta Bera University of SouthamptonSimon Blouin Universite de MontrealKevin Burdge California Institute of TechnologyBarbara Castanheira Baylor CollegeStephane Charpinet Observatoire Midi-PyreneesAndre-Nicholas Chene Gemini ObservatorySihao Cheng Johns Hopkins UniversityPatricia Cho University of Texas, AustinAleksandar Cikota Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryMatthew Coleman Institute for Advanced StudyAlejandro Hugo Corsico Universidad Nacional de La PlataElena Cukanovaite University of WarwickTim Cunningham University of WarwickFrancisco De Geronimo Instituto de Astrofisica de La Plata-CONICETJacqueline den Hartogh Konkoly ObservatoryErik Dennihy Gemini ObservatoryAlexandra Doyle UC Los AngelesPatrick Dufour Universite de MontrealBart Dunlap University of Texas, AustinTrent Dupuy Gemini ObservatoryNick Fantin University of VictoriaLilia Ferrario Australian National UniversityNicolle Finch University of LeicesterNicola Gentile Fusillo University of WarwickJames Green University of ColoradoMarcin Hajduk University of Warmia and MazuryNa’ama Hallakoun Weizmann Institute of ScienceGerald Handler Nicolas Copernicus Astronomical CentreFrancois Hardy Universite de MontrealTyler Heintz Boston UniversityJJ Hermes Boston UniversityKenneth Hinkle National Optical Astronomy ObservatoryMark Hollands University of WarwickJordi Isern Institut de Ciencies de l’EspaiElizabeth Jeffery Cal PolySurajit Kalita Indian Institute of ScienceSteven Kawaler Iowa State UniversityAdela Kawka Curtin UniversityBhusan Kayastha NAOCS. O. Kepler Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulAgnes Kim Pennsylvania State UniversityMarkus Kissler-Patig European Space AgencyScot Kleinman Gemini ObservatoryJerzy Krzesinski Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian UniversityNadege Lagarde Institut UTINAMSusana Landau IFIBA-CONICET-UBAChien-Hsiu Lee National Optical Astronomy Observatory

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First Name Last Name Affiliations

Sandy Leggett Gemini ObservatoryLisa Lobling Universitat TubingenChristopher Manser University of WarwickNadine Manset Canada France Hawaii TelescopePaola Marigo University of Padova VicoloKento Masuda Princeton UniversityLucy McNeill Monash UniversityPavana Muralimohan Indian Institute of AstrophysicsAtsuko Nitta Gemini ObservatoryTerry Oswalt Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityThomas Prince California Institute of TechnologyJudith Provencal Unversity of DelawareThomas Rauch Universitat TubingenHarvey Richer University of British ColumbiaLaura Rogers Cambridge UniversityAshley Ruiter University of New South WalesDidier Saumon Los Alamos National LaboratoryBen Shappee University of HawaiiHenry Shipman Unversity of DelawarePaulina Sowicka Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical CentreValery Suleymanov Universitat TubingenPaula Szkody University of WashingtonLydia Tchang-Brillet Observatiore de Paris, MeudonPatrick Tremblay Universite de MontrealMichael Tucker University of HawaiiZach Vanderbosch University of Texas, AustinEva Villaver Universidad Autonoma de MadridOlivier Vincent Universite de MontrealTed von Hippel Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityKurtis Williams Texas A&M University-CommerceEmily Wilson Rochester Institute of TechnologyDavid Wilson McDonald ObservatoryDon Winget University of Texas, AustinMatt Wood Texas A&M University-CommerceSiyi Xu Gemini ObservatoryYossef Zenati Technion Israel

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