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Data for Effective temperatures of cataclysmic-variable white dwarfs as a probe of their evolution

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Pala, Anna F., Gänsicke, Boris T., Townsley, D. M., Boyd, D., Cook, M., de Martino, D., Godon, P., Haislip, J. B., Henden, A. A., Hubeny, I. et al.
(2019) Data for Effective temperatures of cataclysmic-variable white dwarfs as a probe of their evolution. [Dataset]

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Abstract

We present HST spectroscopy for 45 cataclysmic variables (CVs), observed with HST/COS and HST/STIS. For 36 CVs, the white dwarf is recognisable through its broad Ly α absorption profile and we measure the white dwarf effective temperatures (Teff) by fitting the HST data assuming log  g = 8.35, which corresponds to the average mass for CV white dwarfs (≃0.8 M⊙). Our results nearly double the number of CV white dwarfs with an accurate temperature measurement. We find that CVs above the period gap have, on average, higher temperatures (〈Teff〉 ≃ 23 000 K) and exhibit much more scatter compared to those below the gap (〈Teff〉 ≃ 15 000 K). While this behaviour broadly agrees with theoretical predictions, some discrepancies are present: (i) all our new measurements above the gap are characterized by lower temperatures (Teff ≃ 16 000–26 000 K) than predicted by the present-day CV population models (Teff ≃ 38 000–43 000 K); (ii) our results below the gap are not clustered in the predicted narrow track and exhibit in particular a relatively large spread near the period minimum, which may point to some shortcomings in the CV evolutionary models. Finally, in the standard model of CV evolution, reaching the minimum period, CVs are expected to evolve back towards longer periods with mean accretion rates M˙≲ 2×10^−11 M⊙yr^−1 corresponding to Teff ≲ 11 500 K. We do not unambiguously identify any such system in our survey, suggesting that this major component of the predicted CV population still remains elusive to observations.

Item Type: Dataset
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics
Type of Data: Experimental data
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Astronomical spectroscopy, Stars—Constitution, White dwarf stars
Publisher: University of Warwick, Department of Physics
Official Date: 14 March 2019
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14 March 2019Published
Status: Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Media of Output (format): .f
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Copyright Holders: University of Warwick
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RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
FP/2007– 2013FP7 Ideas: European Research Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100011199
320964European Research Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000781
1141269[FONDECYT] Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológicohttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002850
I/037/12/0Agenzia Spaziale Italianahttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003981
UNSPECIFIED[STFC] Science and Technology Facilities Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000271
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