Thirty-two New Bright ZZ Ceti Stars from TESS: Adding Cycles 4 and 5

Abstract Analyzing all 120 s and 20 s light curves obtained by the TESS satellite up to Sector 69—the end of the fifth year of observations—for all known white dwarfs and white dwarf candidates up to G = 17.5 mag, we report the discovery of 32 new pulsating DA white dwarf stars. For all objects, we obtained the period spectra and performed a seismological analysis using full evolutionary models to estimate the structural parameters, such as effective temperature, stellar mass, and hydrogen envelope mass. The median stellar mass for the pulsators from asteroseismology is 0.609 M ⊙ , in agreement with the median value of photometric and spectroscopic determinations, 0.602 M ⊙ , excluding the low and extremely low mass objects. Finally, we found rotational-splitting multiplets for nine stars, which led to rotation periods between 4 hr and 1 day.