• DOI:10.1093/mnras/staa764
Corpus ID: 212747470

A Volume-limited Sample of Cataclysmic Variables from Gaia DR2: Space Density and Population Properties

@article{Pala2020AVS,
  title={A Volume-limited Sample of Cataclysmic Variables from Gaia DR2: Space Density and Population Properties},
  author={A. F. Pala and B. Gansicke and E. Breedt and C. Knigge and J. Hermes and N. G. Fusillo and M. Hollands and T. Naylor and I. Pelisoli and M. Schreiber and S. Toonen and A. Aungwerojwit and E. Cukanovaite and E. Dennihy and C. Manser and M. Pretorius and S. Scaringi and O. Toloza},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2020},
  volume={494},
  pages={3799-3827}
}

A. F. Pala, B. Gansicke, +15 authors O. Toloza

Published 2020

Physics

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

We present the first volume-limited sample of cataclysmic variables (CVs), selected using the accurate parallaxes provided by the second data release (DR2) of the European Space Agency Gaia space mission. The sample is composed of 42 CVs within 150 pc, including two new systems discovered using the Gaia data, and is (77±10) per cent complete. We use this sample to study the intrinsic properties of the Galactic CV population. In particular, the CV space density we derive, ρ=(4.8+0.6−0.8)×10−6pc… CONTINUE READING

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