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The white dwarf binary pathways survey VII : evidence for a bi-modal distribution of post mass transfer systems?
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Lagos, F., Schreiber, Matthias R., Parsons, Steven G., Toloza, Odette, Gaensicke, B. T., Hernandez, M. S., Schmidtobreick, L. and Belloni, D. (2022) The white dwarf binary pathways survey VII : evidence for a bi-modal distribution of post mass transfer systems? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512 (2). pp. 2625-2635. doi:10.1093/mnras/stac673 ISSN 1365-2966.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac673
Abstract
Binary systems consisting of a white dwarf and a main-sequence companion with orbital periods up to ≈100 d are often thought to be formed through common envelope evolution which is still poorly understood. To provide new observational constraints on the physical processes involved in the formation of these objects, we are conducting a large-scale survey of close binaries consisting of a white dwarf and an A to K-type companion. Here we present three systems with eccentric orbits and orbital periods between ≈10 − 42 d discovered by our survey. Based on HST spectroscopy and high angular resolution images obtained with SPHERE-IRDIS, we find that two of these systems are most likely triple systems while the remaining one could be either a binary or a hierarchical triple but none of them is a post common envelope binary (PCEB). The discovery of these systems shows that our survey is capable to detect systems with orbital periods of the order of weeks, but all six PCEBs we have previously discovered have periods below 2.5 d. We suggest that the fact that all of the systems we identify with periods of the order of weeks are not PCEBs indicates a transition between two different mechanisms responsible for the formation of very close (≲ 10 d) and somewhat wider WD+AFGK binaries: common envelope evolution and non-conservative stable mass transfer.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Double stars -- Evolution, White dwarf stars, Astronomical spectroscopy, Astronomical photometry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 1365-2966 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Official Date: | May 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Volume: | 512 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number: | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 2625-2635 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stac673 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2022 © 2022 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 14 November 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 November 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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