BOSS hot subdwarfs

SDSS-V BOSS spectra of the Culpan et al. (2022) sample, classified here and fitted against one grid.

2368 objects carry a class: 466 published, 2368 assigned by the rule-based classifier, 466 of them both. Judged with spclass.compare rather than by string — so that sdB against sdB: counts as agreement and sd against sdB as a refinement — the two are compatible for 308 of 466 and flatly contradict each other for 137. Those are what the review page is for. 428 have a profile fit in this tree and 87 of those a two-component SED analysis.

What is in it

Counted on the best class each star has — published where there is one, the classifier's otherwise. A composite is counted under its primary here, so the 183 systems with a cool companion are spread across the rows above rather than forming one of their own.

sdB1211
sdOB253
sdO193
He-rich sd388
BHB / A / F105
CV94
white dwarf9
other115

The tables

Nothing on this page is a catalogue. Each entry below is one, and each star has its own page under its J-name.

Single stars, and the grid test428

Every star with a profile fit here, and the comparison that motivated them: the Bamberg v25 grid against Uli's on the same spectra.

Confirmed composites17

The systems where the two-component SED fit itself keeps a cool companion: it improves the fit, its temperature is inside the grid, and its radius is a main-sequence radius.

Published sdB+dM4

Four specific claims, each judged on its own evidence. Their companions are cooler than the 3500 K grid floor, so the infrared leaves them unsettled rather than refuted.

Composite candidates161

Everything the published class, the classifier or the survey notes call a composite and the photometry has not confirmed.

Grid comparison

Uli's grid against Bamberg's, star by star: what changes, and by how much.

Classes to settle

Where the classifier and the published class disagree, and the spectra that would decide it.

Further subsamples

To come. Each is one entry in bossindex.py: a file, a title, a sentence and a count.