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Kilic, M., Hermes, J. J., Gianninas, A., Brown, W. R., Heinke, C. O., Agueros, M. A., Chote, Paul, Sullivan, Denis J., Bell, K. J. and Harrold, S. T. (2014) Found : the progenitors of AM CVn and supernovae .Ia. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society : Letters, Volume 438 (Number 1). L26-L30. doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slt151 ISSN 1745-3925.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slt151
Abstract
We present optical and X-ray observations of two tidally distorted, extremely low-mass white dwarfs (WDs) with massive companions. There is no evidence of neutron stars in our Chandra and XMM observations of these objects. SDSS J075141.18−014120.9 (J0751) is an eclipsing double WD binary containing a 0.19 M⊙ WD with a 0.97 M⊙ companion in a 1.9 h orbit. J0751 becomes the fifth eclipsing double WD system currently known. SDSS J174140.49+652638.7 (J1741) is another binary containing a 0.17 M⊙ WD with an unseen M ≥ 1.11 M⊙ WD companion in a 1.5-h orbit. With a mass ratio of ≈0.1, J1741 will have stable mass transfer through an accretion disc and turn into an interacting AM Canum Venaticorum (AM CVn) system in the next ≈160 Myr. With a mass ratio of 0.2, J0751 is likely to follow a similar evolutionary path. These are the first known AM CVn progenitor binary systems and they provide important constraints on the initial conditions for AM CVn. Theoretical studies suggest that both J0751 and J1741 may create thermonuclear supernovae in ∼108 yr, either .Ia or Ia. Such explosions can account for ∼1 per cent of the Type Ia supernova rate.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society : Letters | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 1745-3925 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | 11 February 2014 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | Volume 438 | ||||||||||
Number: | Number 1 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | L26-L30 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/mnrasl/slt151 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
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