Primeval very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs -- VIII. The first age benchmark L subdwarf, a wide companion to a halo white dwarf
| Autor: | Zhang, Z. H., Raddi, R., Burgasser, A. J., Casewell, S. L., Smart, R. L., Galvez-Ortiz, M. C., Jones, H. R. A., Baig, S., Lodieu, N., Gauza, B., Pavlenko, Ya. V., Jiao, Y. F., Zhao, Z. K., Zhou, S. Y., Pinfield, D. J. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stae1851 |
| Popis: | We report the discovery of five white dwarf + ultracool dwarf systems identified as common proper motion wide binaries in the Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars. The discoveries include a white dwarf + L subdwarf binary, VVV 1256-62AB, a gravitationally bound system located 75.6(+1.9/-1.8) pc away with a projected separation of 1375(+35/-33) au. The primary is a cool DC white dwarf with a hydrogen dominated atmosphere, and has a total age of 10.5(+3.3/-2.1) Gyr, based on white dwarf model fitting. The secondary is an L subdwarf with a metallicity of [M/H] = -0.72(+0.08/-0.10) (i.e. [Fe/H] = -0.81+/-0.10) and Teff = 2298(+45/-43) K based on atmospheric model fitting of its optical to near infrared spectrum, and likely has a mass just above the stellar/substellar boundary. The sub-solar metallicity of the L subdwarf and the system's total space velocity of 406 km/s indicates membership in the Galactic halo, and it has a flat eccentric Galactic orbit passing within 1~kpc of the centre of the Milky Way every ~0.4Gyr and extending to 15-31 kpc at apogal. VVV 1256-62B is the first L subdwarf to have a well-constrained age, making it an ideal benchmark of metal-poor ultracool dwarf atmospheres and evolution. Comment: 15 pages, 12 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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