Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-10-08
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 3 Fig., to appear in 14th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, ASP Conference Series, eds. D. Koester, S. Moehler
Scientific paper
Short period sdB binaries with cool companions are crucial to understand pre-CV evolution, because they will evolve into cataclysmic variables, when the sdB will have left the extended horizontal branch. Recently we discovered the sixth such system, HS 2333+3927, consisting of an sdB star and an M dwarf (period: 0.172 d) with a very strong reflection effect, but no eclipses. The reflection is stronger than in any of the other similar systems which renders a quantitative spectral analysis very difficult because the Balmer line profiles may be disturbed by the reflected light. A spectroscopic analysis results in Teff = 36500 K, log g = 5.70, and log (n_He/n_H) = -2.15. Mass-radius relations were derived from the results of the analysis of light and radial-velocity curves. Comparison with the mass-radius relation derived from the surface gravity of the sdB star favours a rather low mass of 0.38 Msun for the primary. The mass of the companion is 0.29 M_sun. HS 2333+3927 is the only known sdB+dM system with a period above the CV period gap.
Altmann Martin
Cordes Oliver
Drechsel Horst
Folkes Stuart
Heber Uli
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