Finding White Dwarfs with Transit Searches

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2003-03-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0303453v2

Astrophys.J. 592 (2003) L1151-L1155

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures, one table, accepted for publication in ApJ. Minor changes to Galactic model and to discusion section; conc

Scientific paper

10.1086/375806

We make predictions for the rate of discovery of eclipsing white dwarf-main sequence (WD-MS) binaries in terrestrial-planet transit searches, taking the planned Kepler and Eddington missions as examples. We use a population synthesis model to characterize the Galactic WD-MS population, and we find that, despite increased noise due to stellar variability compared with the typical planetary case, discovery of >100 non-accreting, eclipsing WD-MS systems is likely using Kepler and Eddington, with periods of 2-20 days and transit amplitudes of |delta m|~0.0003-0.00003 magnitudes. Follow-up observations of these systems could accurately test the theoretical white dwarf mass-radius relation or theories of binary star evolution.

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