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2017ApJ...847...10B - Astrophys. J., 847, 10-10 (2017/September-3)

Discovery of a detached, eclipsing 40 minute period double white dwarf binary and a friend: implications for He+CO white dwarf mergers.

BROWN W.R., KILIC M., KOSAKOWSKI A. and GIANNINAS A.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the discovery of two detached double white dwarf (WD) binaries, SDSS J082239.546+304857.19 and SDSS J104336.275+055149.90, with orbital periods of 40 and 46 minutes, respectively. The 40 minute system is eclipsing; it is composed of a 0.30 M and a 0.52 M WD. The 46 minute system is a likely LISA verification binary. The short 20 ± 2 Myr and ∼34 Myr gravitational-wave merger times of the two binaries imply that many more such systems have formed and merged over the age of the Milky Way. We update the estimated Milky Way He+CO WD binary merger rate and affirm our previously published result: He+CO WD binaries merge at a rate at least 40 times greater than the formation rate of stable mass-transfer AM CVn binaries, and so the majority must have unstable mass-transfer. The implication is that spin-orbit coupling in He+CO WD mergers is weak, or perhaps nova-like outbursts drive He+CO WDs into merger, as proposed by Shen.

Abstract Copyright: © 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): binaries: close - Galaxy: stellar content - white dwarfs - white dwarfs

CDS comments: J0106 was not identified (not enough information).

Simbad objects: 11

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