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<i>Gaia</i> white dwarfs within 40 pc โ€“ I. Spectroscopic observations of new candidates

<i>Gaia</i> white dwarfs within 40 pc โ€“ I. Spectroscopic observations of new candidates

We present a spectroscopic survey of 230 white dwarf candidates within 40 pc of the Sun from the William Herschel Telescope and Gran Telescopio Canarias. All candidates were selected from $\textit{Gaia}$ Data Release 2 (DR2) and in almost all cases had no prior spectroscopic classifications. We find a total of โ€ฆ