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A large, long-lived structure near the trojan L5 point in the post common-envelope binary SDSS J1021+1744

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Irawati, P., Richichi, A., Bours, Madelon C. P., Marsh, Tom, Sanguansak, N., Chanthorn, K., Hermes, J. J., Hardy, L. K., Parsons, S. G., Dhillon, V. S. and Littlefair, S. P. (2016) A large, long-lived structure near the trojan L5 point in the post common-envelope binary SDSS J1021+1744. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456 (3). pp. 2446-2456. doi:10.1093/mnras/stv2810 ISSN 0035-8711.

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SDSS J1021+1744 is a detached, eclipsing white dwarf/M dwarf binary discovered in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Outside the primary eclipse, the light curves of such systems are usually smooth and characterized by low-level variations caused by tidal distortion and heating of the M star component. Early data on SDSS J1021+1744 obtained in 2012 June were unusual in showing a dip in flux of uncertain origin shortly after the white dwarf's eclipse. Here we present high-time resolution, multiwavelength observations of 35 more eclipses over 1.3 yr, showing that the dip has a lifetime extending over many orbits. Moreover the ‘dip’ is in fact a series of dips that vary in depth, number and position, although they are always placed in the phase interval 1.06–1.26 after the white dwarf's eclipse, near the L5 point in this system. Since SDSS J1021+1744 is a detached binary, it follows that the dips are caused by the transit of the white dwarf by material around the Lagrangian L5 point. A possible interpretation is that they are the signatures of prominences, a phenomenon already known from H α observations of rapidly rotating single stars as well as binaries. What makes SDSS J1021+1744 peculiar is that the material is dense enough to block continuum light. The dips appear to have finally faded out around 2015 May after the first detection by Parsons et al. in 2012, suggesting a lifetime of years.

Item Type: Journal Article
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: 1 March 2016
Dates:
DateEvent
1 March 2016Published
31 December 2015Available
27 November 2015Accepted
Volume: 456
Number: 3
Page Range: pp. 2446-2456
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2810
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
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