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2012MNRAS.419..817P - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 419, 817-826 (2012/January-1)

Post-common envelope binaries from SDSS – XV. Accurate stellar parameters for a cool 0.4 m white dwarf and a 0.16 MM dwarf in a 3 H eclipsing binary.

PYRZAS S., GANSICKE B.T., BRADY S., PARSONS S.G., MARSH T.R., KOESTER D., BREEDT E., COPPERWHEAT C.M., NEBOT GOMEZ-MORAN A., REBASSA-MANSERGAS A., SCHREIBER M.R. and ZOROTOVIC M.

Abstract (from CDS):

We identify SDSS J121010.1+334722.9 as an eclipsing post-common-envelope binary, with an orbital period of Porb = 2.988 h, containing a very cool, low-mass, DAZ white dwarf and a low-mass main-sequence star of spectral type M5. A model atmosphere analysis of the metal absorption lines detected in the blue part of the optical spectrum, along with the Galaxy Evolution Explorer near-ultraviolet flux, yields a white dwarf temperature of Teff,WD = 200 K and a metallicity value of log [Z/H] =-2.0±0.3. The Na I λλ8183.27, 8194.81 absorption doublet is used to measure the radial velocity of the secondary star, Ksec = 251.7 ±2.0 km/s, and Fe I absorption lines in the blue part of the spectrum provide the radial velocity of the white dwarf, KWD = 95.3 ±2.1 km/s, yielding a mass ratio of q = 0.379±0.009. Light-curve model fitting, using the Markov chain Monte Carlo method, gives the inclination angle as i = (79°.5-79°.36)±0°.15, and the stellar masses as MWD = 0.415 ± 0.010M and Msec = 0.158 ± 0.0006M. Systematic uncertainties in the absolute calibration of the photometric data influence the determination of the stellar radii. The radius of the white dwarf is found to be RWD = (0.0157-0.0161) ± 0.0003 R and the volume-averaged radius of the tidally distorted secondary is Rsec,vol.aver. = (0.197-0.203) ± 0.003 R. The white dwarf in SDSS J121010.1+334722.9 is a very strong He-core candidate.

Abstract Copyright: 2011 The Authors Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society2011 RAS

Journal keyword(s): binaries: close - binaries: eclipsing - stars: fundamental parameters - stars: individual: SDSS 121010.1+334722.9 - stars: late-type - white dwarfs

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