Four new deeply-eclipsing white dwarfs in ZTF

Autor: Kosakowski, Alekzander, Kilic, M., Brown, W. R., Bergeron, P., Kupfer, T.
Rok vydání: 2022
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1146
Popis: We present the results of a search for deeply-eclipsing white dwarfs in the ZTF Data Release 4. We identify nine deeply-eclipsing white dwarf candidates, four of which we followed up with high-cadence photometry and spectroscopy. Three of these systems show total eclipses in the ZTF data and our follow-up APO 3.5-meter telescope observations. Even though the eclipse duration is consistent with sub-stellar companions, our analysis shows that all four systems contain a white dwarf with low-mass stellar companions of ~0.1 Msol. We provide mass and radius constraints for both stars in each system based on our photometric and spectroscopic fitting. Finally, we present a list of 41 additional eclipsing WD+M candidates identified in a preliminary search of ZTF DR7, including 12 previously studied systems. We identify two new candidate short-period, eclipsing, white dwarf-brown dwarf binaries within our sample of 41 WD+M candidates based on PanSTARRS colors.
Comment: Accepted for publication with MNRAS. 12 pages, 15 figures, 3 tables
Databáze: arXiv