Brown, A.J. orcid.org/0000-0002-3316-7240, Parsons, S.G. orcid.org/0000-0002-2695-2654, Littlefair, S.P. et al. (10 more authors) (2022) Characterising eclipsing white dwarf M dwarf binaries from multi-band eclipse photometry. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513 (2). stac1047. pp. 3050-3064. ISSN 0035-8711
Abstract
With the prevalence of wide-field, time-domain photometric sky surveys, the number of eclipsing white dwarf systems being discovered is increasing dramatically. An efficient method to follow these up will be key to determining any population trends and finding any particularly interesting examples. We demonstrate that multi-band eclipse photometry of binaries containing a white dwarf and an M dwarf can be used to determine the masses and temperatures of the white dwarfs to better than 5 per cent. For the M dwarfs we measure their parameters to a precision of better than 6 per cent with the uncertainty dominated by the intrinsic scatter of the M dwarf mass-radius relationship. This precision is better than what can typically be achieved with low-resolution spectroscopy. The nature of this method means that it will be applicable to LSST data in the future, enabling direct characterisation without follow-up spectroscopy. Additionally, we characterise three new post-common-envelope binaries from their eclipse photometry, finding two systems containing hot helium-core white dwarfs with low-mass companions (one near the brown dwarf transition regime) and a possible detached cataclysmic variable at the lower edge of the period gap.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | (stars:) binaries: eclipsing; (stars:) white dwarfs; stars: late-type; techniques: photometric |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Physics and Astronomy (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Apr 2022 13:04 |
Last Modified: | 09 Jan 2023 17:22 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/mnras/stac1047 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:185902 |