The SDSS spectroscopic catalogue of white dwarf-main sequence binaries: new identifications from DR9-12

Autor:	Rebassa-Mansergas, A., Ren, J. J., Parsons, S. G., Gaensicke, B. T., Schreiber, M. R., Garcia-Berro, E., Liu, X. -W., Koester, D.
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1093/mnras/stw554
Popis:	We present an updated version of the spectroscopic catalogue of white dwarf-main sequence (WDMS) binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We identify 939 WDMS binaries within the data releases (DR) 9-12 of SDSS plus 40 objects from DR 1-8 that we missed in our previous works, 646 of which are new. The total number of spectroscopic SDSS WDMS binaries increases to 3294. This is by far the largest and most homogeneous sample of compact binaries currently available. We use a decomposition/fitting routine to derive the stellar parameters of all systems identified here (white dwarf effective temperatures, surface gravities and masses, and secondary star spectral types). The analysis of the corresponding stellar parameter distributions shows that the SDSS WDMS binary population is seriously affected by selection effects. We also measure the NaI 8183.27, 8194.81 absorption doublet and Halpha emission radial velocities (RV) from all SDSS WDMS binary spectra identified in this work. 98 objects are found to display RV variations, 62 of which are new. The RV data are sufficient enough to estimate the orbital periods of three close binaries. Comment: 14 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication by MNRAS
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01017 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv