WD1032+011, an inflated brown dwarf in an old eclipsing binary with a white dwarf
| Autor: | Casewell, S. L., Belardi, C., Parsons, S. G., Littlefair, S. P., Braker, I. P., Hermes, J. J., Debes, J., Vanderbosch, Z., Burleigh, M. R., Gaensicke, B. T., Dhillon, V. S., Marsh, T. R., Winget, D. E., Winget, K. I. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/staa1608 |
| Popis: | We present the discovery of only the third brown dwarf known to eclipse a non-accreting white dwarf. Gaia parallax information and multi-colour photometry confirm that the white dwarf is cool (9950$\pm$150K) and has a low mass (0.45$\pm$0.05~MSun), and spectra and lightcurves suggest the brown dwarf has a mass of 0.067 $\pm$0.006 MSun (70 MJup) and a spectral type of L5 $\pm$1. The kinematics of the system show that the binary is likely to be a member of the thick disk and therefore at least 5 Gyr old. The high cadence lightcurves show that the brown dwarf is inflated, making it the first brown dwarf in an eclipsing white dwarf-brown dwarf binary to be so. Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 11 pages, 7 Figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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