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NLTT 5306 : the shortest period detached white dwarf+brown dwarf binary
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Steele, P. R., Saglia, R. P., Burleigh, Matthew R., Marsh, T. R., Gänsicke, B. T. (Boris T.), Lawrie, K., Cappetta, M., Girven, Jonathan and Napiwotzki, R. (2012) NLTT 5306 : the shortest period detached white dwarf+brown dwarf binary. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 429 (Number 4). pp. 3492-3500. doi:10.1093/mnras/sts620 ISSN 0035-8711.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts620
Abstract
We have spectroscopically confirmed a brown dwarf mass companion to the hydrogen atmosphere white dwarf NLTT 5306. The white dwarf's atmospheric parameters were measured using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and X-shooter spectroscopy as Teff = 7756 ± 35 K and log(g) = 7.68 ± 0.08, giving a mass for the primary of MWD = 0.44 ± 0.04 M⊙ at a distance of 71 ± 4 pc with a cooling age of 710 ± 50 Myr. The existence of the brown dwarf secondary was confirmed through the near-infrared arm of the X-shooter data and a spectral type of dL4–dL7 was estimated using standard spectral indices. Combined radial velocity measurements from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, X-shooter and the Hobby–Eberly Telescope's High Resolution Spectrograph of the white dwarf give a minimum mass of 56 ± 3 MJup for the secondary, confirming the substellar nature. The period of the binary was measured as 101.88 ± 0.02 min using both the radial velocity data and i′-band variability detected with the Isaac Newton Telescope. This variability indicates ‘day’ side heating of the brown dwarf companion. We also observe Hα emission in our higher resolution data in phase with the white dwarf radial velocity, indicating that this system is in a low level of accretion, most likely via a stellar wind. This system represents the shortest period white dwarf+brown dwarf binary and the secondary has survived a stage of common envelope evolution, much like its longer period counterpart, WD 0137−349. Both systems likely represent bona fide progenitors of cataclysmic variables with a low-mass white dwarf and a brown dwarf donor.
| 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 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0035-8711 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 12 January 2012 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | Volume 429 | ||||||||
| Number: | Number 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 3492-3500 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/sts620 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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