Six detached white-dwarf close binaries

Details Six detached white-dwarf close binaries Six detached white-dwarf close binaries

2005-02-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0502408v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 359 (2005) 648-662

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08943.x

We determine the orbits of four double degenerate systems (DDs), composed of two white dwarfs, and of two white dwarf -- M dwarf binaries. The four DDs, WD1022+050, WD1428+373, WD1824+040, and WD2032+188, show orbital periods of 1.157155(5) d, 1.15674(2) d, 6.26602(6) d and 5.0846(3) d respectively. These periods combined with estimates for the masses of the brighter component, based on their effective temperatures, allow us to constrain the masses of the unseen companions. We estimate that the upper limit for the contribution of the unseen companions to the total luminosity in the four DDs ranges between 10 and 20 per cent. In the case of the two white dwarf - M dwarf binaries, WD1042-690 and WD2009+622, we calculate the orbital parameters by fitting simultaneously the absorption line from the white dwarf and the emission core from the M-dwarf. Their orbital periods are 0.337083(1) d and 0.741226(2) d respectively. We find signatures of irradiation on the inner face of WD2009+622's companion. We calculate the masses of both components from the gravitational redshift and the mass-radius relationship for white dwarfs and find masses of 0.75 -- 0.78 Msun and 0.61 -- 0.64 Msun for WD1042-690 and WD2009+622 respectively. This indicates that the stars probably reached the asymptotic giant branch in their evolution before entering a common envelope phase. These two white dwarf - M dwarf binaries will become cataclysmic variables, although not within a Hubble time, with orbital periods below the period gap.

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