Discovery of the Partially Eclipsing White Dwarf Binary SDSS J143547.87+373338.5

Details Discovery of the Partially Eclipsing White Dwarf Binary SDSS J143547.87+373338.5 Discovery of the Partially Eclipsing White Dwarf Binary SDSS J143547.87+373338.5

2008-03-06

arxiv.org/abs/0803.0751v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 Pages - Accepted to Ap J Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/588022

We have discovered a partially eclipsing white dwarf, low-mass M dwarf binary (3 hour 54.41 second orbital period), SDSS J143547.87+373338.5, from May 2007 observations at the WIYN telescope. Here we present blue band photometry of three eclipses. Eclipse fitting gives main sequence solutions to the M dwarf companion of $M_S=0.15-0.35 M_{\odot}$ and $R_S=0.17-0.32 R_{\odot}$. Analysis of the SDSS spectrum constrains the M dwarf further to be of type M4-M6 with $M_S=0.11-0.20 M_{\odot}$. Once full radial velocity curves are measured, high precision determinations of the masses and radii of both components will be easily obtained without any knowledge of stellar structure or evolution. ZZ Ceti pulsations from the white dwarf were not found at our 4 mmag detection limit.

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