Radial velocity study of the post-period minimum cataclysmic variable SDSSJ143317.78+101123.3 with an electron-multiplying CCD

Bibcode
2009MNRAS.397L..82T
DOI
10.1111/j.1745-3933.2009.00689.x
Tulloch, S. M.; Rodríguez-Gil, P.; Dhillon, V. S.
Bibliographical reference

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Volume 397, Issue 1, pp. L82-L86.

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7
2009
Number of authors
3
IAC number of authors
1
Citations
21
Refereed citations
21
Description
We present high time-resolution spectroscopy of the eclipsing cataclysmic variable SDSSJ143317.78+101123.3 obtained with QUCAM2, a high-speed/low-noise electron-multiplying CCD camera. Littlefair et al. measured the mass of the secondary star in SDSSJ143317.78+101123.3 using a light-curve fitting technique and obtained a value of M2 = 0.060 +/- 0.003Msolar, making it one of the three first bona fide detections of a brown dwarf mass donor in a cataclysmic variable. In this Letter, we present a dynamical measurement supporting this important result. We measured the radial velocity semi-amplitude of the white dwarf from the motion of the wings of the Hα emission line and obtained a figure of K1 = 34 +/- 4kms-1, in excellent agreement with the value of K1 = 35 +/- 2kms-1 predicted by Littlefair et al.'s model.
Type
Refereed
Dwarf novae
Novae

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