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Radio pulsating white dwarf (WD) systems, known as WD pulsars, are non-accreting binary systems where the rapidly spinning WD interacts with a low-mass companion producing pulsed non-thermal emission that can be observed across the entire…

We present the discovery of NGTS J214358.5-380102, an eccentric M-dwarf binary discovered by the Next Generation Transit Survey. The system period of 7.618 days is greater than many known eclipsing M-dwarf binary systems. Its orbital…

We have discovered a new, near-equal mass, eclipsing M dwarf binary from the Next Generation Transit Survey. This system is only one of 3 field age ($>$ 1 Gyr), late M dwarf eclipsing binaries known, and has a period of 1.74774 days,…

We present the results from a Gemini snapshot radial-velocity survey of 44 low-mass white dwarf candidates selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopy. To find sub-hour orbital period binary systems, our time-series spectroscopy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Mukremin Kilic , Warren R. Brown , A. Gianninas , Brandon Curd , Keaton J. Bell , Carlos Allende Prieto

[abridged] We report four years of radial velocity monitoring observations of SDSS J080531.84+481233.0 that reveal significant and periodic variability, confirming the binary nature of the source. We infer an orbital period of 2.02$\pm$0.03…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Adam J. Burgasser , Cullen H. Blake , Christopher R. Gelino , Johannes Sahlmann , Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi

We report the discovery of ZTF J2243+5242, an eclipsing double white dwarf binary with an orbital period of just $8.8$ minutes, the second known eclipsing binary with an orbital period less than ten minutes. The system likely consists of…

We present the discovery of an unusual, tidally-distorted extremely low mass white dwarf (WD) with nearly solar metallicity. Radial velocity measurements confirm that this is a compact binary with an orbital period of 2.6975 hrs and a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Gianninas , J. J. Hermes , Warren R. Brown , P. Dufour , Sara D. Barber , Mukremin Kilic , Scott J. Kenyon , Samuel T. Harrold

We report the discovery and characterization of PSR J1810-0623, a fully recycled millisecond pulsar with a spin period of 4.55 ms, discovered with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) and followed up with FAST…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-17 Jie Zhang , Zerui Wang , Lei Zhang , Yulan Liu , Alessandro Ridolfi , Meng Guo , Di Li , Ryan S. Lynch , Cong Wang , Pei Wang , Mengmeng Ni , Jiale Hu , Mengquan Liu , Zhie Liu , Bo Han , Chenchen Miao

The nature of the excess near-infrared emission associated with the magnetic white dwarf commonly known as SDSS 1212 is investigated primarily through spectroscopy, and also via photometry. The inferred low mass secondary in this system has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Farihi , M. R. Burleigh , D. W. Hoard

I introduce the two classes of pulsar, white-dwarf binaries, and describe for each what we have learned from a specific system, PSR J1012+5307 and PSR B0655+64, respectively, summarising what has been done, presenting new results, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 M. H. van Kerkwijk

We present the discovery of 17 double white dwarf (WD) binaries from our on-going search for extremely low mass (ELM) <0.3 Msun WDs, objects that form from binary evolution. Gaia parallax provides a new means of target selection that we use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-08 Warren R. Brown , Mukremin Kilic , Alekzander Kosakowski , A. Gianninas

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 N. Hallakoun , D. Maoz , M. Kilic , T. Mazeh , A. Gianninas , E. Agol , K. J. Bell , S. Bloemen , W. R. Brown , J. Debes , S. Faigler , I. Kull , T. Kupfer , A. Loeb , B. M. Morris , F. Mullally

The results of 27 hours of time series photometry of SDSS 121209.31+013627.7 are presented. The binary period established from spectroscopy is confirmed and refined to 0.061412 d (88.43 minutes). The photometric variations are dominated by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Koen , P. F. L. Maxted

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…

We report the discovery and characterisation of a new M-dwarf binary, with component masses and radii of M1 = 0.244 -0.003/+0.003 Msun, R1 = 0.261 -0.009/+0.006 Rsun, M2 = 0.179 -0.001/+0.002 Msun, R2 = 0.218 -0.011/+0.007 Rsun, and orbital…

Pulsating low-mass white dwarf stars are white dwarfs with stellar masses between 0.30~M$_{\odot}$ and 0.45~M$_{\odot}$ that show photometric variability due to gravity-mode pulsations. Within this mass range, they can harbour both a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 A. D. Romero , G. R. Lauffer , A. G. Istrate , S. G. Parsons

We report on the search for new eclipsing white dwarf plus main-sequence (WDMS) binaries in the light curves of the Catalina surveys. We use a colour selected list of almost 2000 candidate WDMS systems from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,…

We report the identification of the M9 dwarf SDSS J000649.16-085246.3 as a spectral binary and radial velocity variable with components straddling the hydrogen burning mass limit. Low-resolution near-infrared spectroscopy reveals spectral…

We present the timing solution for the 5.31-ms spider millisecond pulsar (MSP) J1242-4712, discovered with the GMRT. PSR J1242-4712 orbits a companion of minimum mass 0.08 M$_{\odot}$ with an orbital period of 7.7 hrs and occupies a…

We report the discovery of the first millisecond pulsar with a pulsating white dwarf companion. Following the recent discoveries of pulsations in extremely low-mass (ELM, <0.3 Msol) white dwarfs (WDs), we targeted ELM WD companions to two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Mukremin Kilic , J. J. Hermes , A. Gianninas , Warren R. Brown