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SDSS J1152+0248: An eclipsing double white dwarf from the Kepler K2 campaign

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2016-02-24 v2

Abstract

We report the discovery of the sixth known eclipsing double white dwarf (WD) system, SDSS J1152+0248, with a 2.3968 +/- 0.0003 h orbital period, in data from the Kepler Mission's K2 continuation. Analysing and modelling the K2 data together with ground-based fast photometry, spectroscopy, and radial-velocity measurements, we determine that the primary is a DA-type WD with mass M1 = 0.47 +/- 0.11 Msun, radius R1 = 0.0197 +/- 0.0035 Rsun, and cooling age t1 = 52 +/- 36 Myr. No lines are detected, to within our sensitivity, from the secondary WD, but it is likely also of type DA. Its central surface brightness, as measured from the secondary eclipse, is 0.31 of the primary's surface brightness. Its mass, radius, and cooling age, respectively, are M2 = 0.44 +/- 0.09 Msun, R2 = 0.0223 +0.0064 -0.0050 Rsun, and t2 = 230 +/- 100 Myr. SDSS J1152+0248 is a near twin of the double-lined eclipsing WD system CSS 41177.

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@article{arxiv.1507.06311,
  title  = {SDSS J1152+0248: An eclipsing double white dwarf from the Kepler K2 campaign},
  author = {N. Hallakoun and D. Maoz and M. Kilic and T. Mazeh and A. Gianninas and E. Agol and K. J. Bell and S. Bloemen and W. R. Brown and J. Debes and S. Faigler and I. Kull and T. Kupfer and A. Loeb and B. M. Morris and F. Mullally},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.06311},
  year   = {2016}
}

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MNRAS, accepted