The ELM survey. VII. 15 new ELM white dwarf cand. Virtual Observatory Resource

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

We present the discovery of 15 extremely low-mass (5<logg<7) white dwarf (WD) candidates, 9 of which are in ultra-compact double-degenerate binaries. Our targeted extremely low-mass Survey sample now includes 76 binaries. The sample has a lognormal distribution of orbital periods with a median period of 5.4hr. The velocity amplitudes imply that the binary companions have a normal distribution of mass with 0.76 M_{sun}_ mean and 0.25M_{sun}_ dispersion. Thus extremely low-mass WDs are found in binaries with a typical mass ratio of 1:4. Statistically speaking, 95% of the WD binaries have a total mass below the Chandrasekhar mass, and thus are not type Ia supernova progenitors. Yet half of the observed binaries will merge in less than 6Gyr due to gravitational wave radiation; probable outcomes include single massive WDs and stable mass transfer AM CVn binaries.

Keywords
  1. white-dwarf-stars
  2. radial-velocity
  3. visible-astronomy
  4. sloan-photometry
  5. spectroscopic-binary-stars
  6. stellar-distance
  7. stellar-masses
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2016ApJ...818..155B
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2016-05-30T15:09:20Z
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2016-05-30T15:09:20Z
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