Bibcode
McAllister, M. J.; Littlefair, S. P.; Dhillon, V.; Marsh, T. R.; Gänsicke, B. T.; Bochinski, J.; Bours, M. C. P.; Breedt, E.; Hardy, L. K.; Hermes, J. J.; Kengkriangkrai, S.; Kerry, P.; Parsons, S. G.; Rattanasoon, S.
Referencia bibliográfica
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 467, Issue 1, p.1024-1032
Fecha de publicación:
5
2017
Número de citas
25
Número de citas referidas
23
Descripción
We present high-speed, multicolour photometry of the faint, eclipsing
cataclysmic variable (CV) SDSS J105754.25+275947.5. The light from this
system is dominated by the white dwarf. Nonetheless, averaging many
eclipses reveals additional features from the eclipse of the bright
spot. This enables the fitting of a parametrized eclipse model to these
average light curves, allowing the precise measurement of system
parameters. We find a mass ratio of q = 0.0546 ± 0.0020 and
inclination i = 85.74 ± 0.21°. The white dwarf and donor
masses were found to be Mw = 0.800 ± 0.015
M⊙ and Md = 0.0436 ± 0.0020
M⊙, respectively. A temperature Tw = 13300
± 1100 K and distance d = 367 ± 26 pc of the white dwarf
were estimated through fitting model atmosphere predictions to
multicolour fluxes. The mass of the white dwarf in SDSS
105754.25+275947.5 is close to the average for CV white dwarfs, while
the donor has the lowest mass yet measured in an eclipsing CV. A
low-mass donor and an orbital period (90.44 min) significantly longer
than the period minimum strongly suggest that this is a bona fide
period-bounce system, although formation from a white dwarf/brown dwarf
binary cannot be ruled out. Very few period-minimum/period-bounce
systems with precise system parameters are currently known, and as a
consequence the evolution of CVs in this regime is not yet fully
understood.
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