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== Nearest white dwarfs == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |+ White dwarfs within 25 light years<ref> {{cite journal | last1=Giammichele, N. | last2=Bergeron, P. | last3=Dufour, P. | title=Know Your Neighborhood: A Detailed Model Atmosphere Analysis of Nearby White Dwarfs | journal=The Astrophysical Journal Supplement | volume=199 | issue=2 | id=29 | page=35 | date=April 2012 | doi=10.1088/0067-0049/199/2/29 | bibcode=2012ApJS..199...29G |arxiv = 1202.5581 | s2cid=118304737 }}</ref> ! class="unsortable" | Identifier ! WD Number ! Distance<br />{{bracket|[[Light year|ly]]}} ! Type ! [[Absolute magnitude|Absolute<br />magnitude]] ! Mass<br />{{bracket|{{solar mass|link=yes}}}} ! Luminosity<br />{{bracket|{{Solar luminosity|link=yes}}}} ! Age<br />{{bracket|[[Gigaannum|Gyr]]}} ! Objects in system |- |style="text-align: left;"| [[Sirius]] B | 0642β166 | 8.66 | DA | 11.18 | 0.98 | {{val|0.0295}} | 0.10 | 2 |- |style="text-align: left;"| [[Procyon]] B | 0736+053 | 11.46 | DQZ | 13.20 | 0.63 | {{val|0.00049}} | 1.37 | 2 |- |style="text-align: left;"| [[Van Maanen 2]] | 0046+051 | 14.07 | DZ | 14.09 | 0.68 | {{val|0.00017}} | 3.30 | 1 |- |style="text-align: left;"| [[LP 145-141]] | 1142β645 | 15.12 | DQ | 12.77 | 0.61 | {{val|0.00054}} | 1.29 | 1 |- |style="text-align: left;"| [[40 Eridani]] B | 0413β077 | 16.39 | DA | 11.27 | 0.59 | {{val|0.0141}} | 0.12 | 3 |- |style="text-align: left;"| [[Stein 2051]] B | 0426+588 | 17.99 | DC | 13.43 | 0.69 | {{val|0.00030}} | 2.02 | 2 |- |style="text-align: left;"| [[G 240-72]] | 1748+708 | 20.26 | DQ | 15.23 | 0.81 | {{val|0.000085}} | 5.69 | 1 |- |style="text-align: left;"| [[Gliese 223.2]] | 0552β041 | 21.01 | DZ | 15.29 | 0.82 | {{val|0.000062}} | 7.89 | 1 |- |style="text-align: left;"| [[Gliese 3991]] B<ref> {{cite journal | bibcode=1999A&A...344..897D | title=New neighbours. I. 13 new companions to nearby M dwarfs | display-authors=1 | last1=Delfosse | first1=Xavier | last2=Forveille | first2=Thierry | last3=Beuzit | first3=Jean-Luc | last4=Udry | first4=StΓ©phane | last5=Mayor | first5=Michel | last6=Perrier | first6=Christian | journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics | volume=344 | pages=897β910 | date=April 1999 | arxiv=astro-ph/9812008 }}</ref> | 1708+437 | 24.23 | D?? | > 15 | 0.5 | < {{val|0.000086}} | > 6 | 2 |}
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