Brown Dwarf Companions to White Dwarfs

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2011-02-02

arxiv.org/abs/1102.0505v1

AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1331, pp. 262-270 (2011)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Part of PlanetsbeyondMS/2010 proceedings http://arxiv.org/html/1011.6606

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3570983

Brown dwarf companions to white dwarfs are rare, but recent infra-red surveys are slowly reveal- ing examples. We present new observations of the post-common envelope binary WD0137-349, which reveals the effects of irradiation on the ~ 0.05M* secondary, and new observations of GD 1400 which show that it too is a close, post-comon envelope system. We also present the lat- est results in a near-infrared photometric search for unresolved ultracool companions and to white dwarfs with UKIDSS. Twenty five DA white dwarfs were identified as having photometric excesses indicative of a low mass companion, with 8-10 of these having a predicted mass in the range asso- ciated with brown dwarfs. The results of this survey show that the unresolved (< 2") brown dwarf companion fraction to DA white dwarfs is 0.3 \leq fWD+BD \leq 1.3%.

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