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2017MNRAS.468.3109V - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 468, 3109-3122 (2017/July-1)

PTF1 J085713+331843, a new post-common-envelope binary in the orbital period gap of cataclysmic variables.

VAN ROESTEL J., GROOT P.J., LEVITAN D., PRINCE T.A., BLOEMEN S., MARSH T.R., DHILLON V.S., SHUPE D. and LAHER R.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the discovery and analysis of PTF1 J085713+331843, a new eclipsing post-common-envelope detached white-dwarf-red-dwarf binary with a 2.5 h orbital period discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory. ULTRACAM multicolour photometry over multiple orbital periods reveals a light curve with a deep flat-bottomed primary eclipse and a strong reflection effect. Phase-resolved spectroscopy shows broad Balmer absorption lines from the DA white dwarf and phase-dependent Balmer emission lines originating on the irradiated side of the red dwarf. The temperature of the DA white dwarf is TWD = 25 700 ± 400 K and the spectral type of the red dwarf is M3-M5. A combined modelling of the light curve and the radial velocity variations results in a white dwarf mass of MWD = 0.61+0.18–0.17  M and radius of RWD = 0.0175+0.0012–0.0011  R, and a red dwarf mass and radius of MRD = 0.19+0.10–0.08  M and RRD = 0.24+0.04–0.04  R. The system is either a detached cataclysmic variable or has emerged like from the common-envelope phase at nearly its current orbital period. In ∼70 Myr, this system will become a cataclysmic variable in the period gap.

Abstract Copyright: © 2017 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): binaries: eclipsing - stars: late-type - white dwarfs - white dwarfs

Simbad objects: 5

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