The ELM survey. V. White dwarf binaries Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Brown W.R.
  2. Kilic M.
  3. Allende Prieto C.
  4. Gianninas A.
  5. Kenyon S.J.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the discovery of 17 low-mass white dwarfs (WDs) in short-period (P<=1 day) binaries. Our sample includes four objects with remarkable logg=~5 surface gravities and orbital solutions that require them to be double degenerate binaries. All of the lowest surface gravity WDs have metal lines in their spectra implying long gravitational settling times or ongoing accretion. Notably, six of the WDs in our sample have binary merger times <10Gyr. Four have >~0.9M_{sun}_ companions. If the companions are massive WDs, these four binaries will evolve into stable mass transfer AM CVn systems and possibly explode as underluminous supernovae. If the companions are neutron stars, then these may be millisecond pulsar binaries. These discoveries increase the number of detached, double degenerate binaries in the Extremely low mass (ELM) Survey to 54; 31 of these binaries will merge within a Hubble time.

Keywords
  1. white-dwarf-stars
  2. radial-velocity
  3. stellar-distance
  4. stellar-masses
  5. visible-astronomy
  6. sloan-photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2013ApJ...769...66B
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/769/66
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/769/66
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.17690066

Access

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http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/769/66
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/769/66
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/769/66
IVOA Table Access TAP
http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/769/66/wdbin?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/769/66/wdbin?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/769/66/wdbin?

History

2015-01-13T07:58:51Z
Resource record created
2015-01-13T07:58:51Z
Created
2017-06-12T08:25:13Z
Updated

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