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Our discovery of 1SWASP J093010.78+533859.5 as a probable doubly eclipsing quadruple system containing a contact binary with P~0.23 d and a detached binary with P~1.31 d was announced in 2013. Subsequently Koo et al. confirmed the detached…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. E. Lohr , A. J. Norton , E. Gillen , R. Busuttil , U. C. Kolb , S. Aigrain , A. McQuillan , S. T. Hodgkin , E. González

We present new photometry and spectroscopy of the eclipsing white dwarf - M-dwarf binary star RR Cae. We use timings of the primary eclipse from white-light photo-electric photometry to derive a new ephemeris for the eclipses. We find no…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. F. L. Maxted , D. O'Donoghue , L. Morales-Rueda , R. Napiwotzki

We report photometric observations of the eclipsing close binary CSS21055 (SDSS J141126+200911) that strongly suggest that the companion to the carbon-oxygen white dwarf is a brown dwarf with a mass between 0.030 and 0.074 Msun. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-19 K. Beuermann , S. Dreizler , F. V. Hessman , U. Backhaus , A. Boesch , T. -O. Husser , L. Nortmann , A. Schmelev , R. Springer

We present time-series spectroscopy and photometry of Gaia DR2 6097540197980557440, a new deeply-eclipsing hot subdwarf B (sdB) + M dwarf (dM) binary. We discovered this object during the course of the Eclipsing Reflection Effect Binaries…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Kyle A. Corcoran , Brad N. Barlow , Veronika Schaffenroth , Uli Heber , Stephen Walser , Andreas Irgang

SDSS J030308.35+005444.1 is a close, detached, eclipsing white dwarf plus M dwarf binary which shows a large infrared excess which has been interpreted in terms of a circumbinary dust disk. In this paper we present optical and near-infrared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. G. Parsons , T. R. Marsh , B. T. Gänsicke , M. R. Schreiber , M. C. P. Bours , V. S. Dhillon , S. P. Littlefair

We report the discovery of a detached 20 min orbital period binary white dwarf. WD0931+444 (SDSS J093506.93+441106.9) was previously classified as a WD + M dwarf system based on its optical spectrum. Our time-resolved optical spectroscopy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Mukremin Kilic , Warren R. Brown , A. Gianninas , J. J. Hermes , Carlos Allende Prieto , S. J. Kenyon

SDSS J1021+1744 is a detached, eclipsing white dwarf / M dwarf binary discovered in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Outside the primary eclipse, the light curves of such systems are usually smooth and characterised by low-level variations…

Low-mass white dwarfs (LMWDs) are believed to be exclusive products of binary evolution, as the Universe is not yet old enough to produce them from single stars. Because of the strong tidal forces operating during the binary interaction…

We present the discovery with WISE of a significant infrared excess associated with the eclipsing post-common envelope binary SDSSJ 030308.35+005443.7, the first excess discovered around a non-interacting white dwarf+main sequence M dwarf…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 John H. Debes , D. W. Hoard , Jay Farihi , Stefanie Wachter , David T. Leisawitz , Martin Cohen

We determine the orbits of four double degenerate systems (DDs), composed of two white dwarfs, and of two white dwarf -- M dwarf binaries. The four DDs, WD1022+050, WD1428+373, WD1824+040, and WD2032+188, show orbital periods of 1.157155(5)…

Eclipsing binaries offer a unique opportunity to determine basic stellar properties. With the advent of wide-field camera and all-sky time-domain surveys, thousands of eclipsing binaries have been charted via light curve classification, yet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Chien-Hsiu Lee

We have spectroscopically confirmed a brown dwarf mass companion to the hydrogen atmosphere white dwarf NLTT5306. The white dwarf's atmospheric parameters were measured using Sloan Digital Sky Survey and X-Shooter spectroscopy as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 P. R. Steele , R. P. Saglia , M. R. Burleigh , T. R. Marsh , B. T. Gänsicke , K. Lawrie , M. Cappetta , J. Girven , R. Napiwotzki

We report the discovery of a detached double white dwarf binary with an orbital period of $\approx20.6\,\rm minutes$, PTF J053332.05+020911.6. The visible object in this binary, PTF J0533+0209B, is a $\approx 0.17\,M_\odot$ mass white dwarf…

We report the discovery of the fifth self-lensing binary in which a low-mass white dwarf (WD) gravitationally magnifies its 15th magnitude G-star companion, KIC 8145411, during eclipses. The system was identified from a pair of such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Kento Masuda , Hajime Kawahara , David W. Latham , Allyson Bieryla , Masanobu Kunitomo , Morgan MacLeod , Wako Aoki

We present the discovery of 17 low mass white dwarfs (WDs) in short-period P<1 day binaries. Our sample includes four objects with remarkable log(g)~5 surface gravities and orbital solutions that require them to be double degenerate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Warren R. Brown , Mukremin Kilic , Carlos Allende Prieto , A. Gianninas , Scott J. Kenyon

We derive precise system parameters for the pre-cataclysmic binary, NN Ser. From light curve fitting we find an orbital inclination of i = 89.6 +/- 0.2 deg. From the HeII absorption line we find K_{WD}= 62.3 +/- 1.9 km/s. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-24 S. G. Parsons , T. R. Marsh , C. M. Copperwheat , V. S. Dhillon , S. P. Littlefair , B. T. Gansicke , R. Hickman

We report the detection of orbital decay in the 12.75-min, detached binary white dwarf (WD) SDSS J065133.338+284423.37 (hereafter J0651). Our photometric observations over a 13-month baseline constrain the orbital period to 765.206543(55) s…

We use a combination of X-shooter spectroscopy, ULTRACAM high-speed photometry and SOFI near-infrared photometry to measure the masses and radii of both components of the eclipsing post common envelope binaries SDSS J1212-0123 and GK Vir.…

We report the discovery of a new eclipsing EL CVn-type binary, consisting of a $\delta$ Sct-type pulsator and a thermally bloated low-mass pre-He white dwarf (WD). Spectroscopy and time-series $BV$ photometry of V1224 Cas were carried out.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Kun Wang , Changqing Luo , Xiaobin Zhang , Bo Zhang , Licai Deng , Zhiquan Luo

We present the binary model and the eclipse timing variations of the eclipsing binary RR Cae, which consists of a white dwarf eclipsed by an M-type dwarf companion. The multi-wavelength optical photometry from the Transiting Exoplanet…