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Binary systems with ultrashort-period planetary-mass companions are expected to radiate continuous gravitational waves (GWs). However, earlier studies found that the detectability of such systems by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Abdusattar Kurban , Xia Zhou , Na Wang , Yong-Feng Huang , Wenming Yan , Jianping Yuan , Ali Esamdin , Yu-Bin Wang , Zhigang Wen , Rai Yuen

We present the first discoveries of the double-lined double white dwarf (DBL) survey that targets over-luminous sources with respect to the canonical white dwarf cooling sequence according to a set of well-defined criteria. The primary goal…

Pulsed X-ray emission in the luminous, helium-rich sdO BD+37 442 has recently been discovered (La Palombara et al., 2012). It was suggested that the sdO star has a neutron star or white dwarf companion with a spin period of 19.2 s. After HD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-29 U. Heber , S. Geier , A. Irrgang , D. Schneider , I. Barbu-Barna , S. Mereghetti , N. La Palombara

We present the results of a search for deeply-eclipsing white dwarfs in the ZTF Data Release 4. We identify nine deeply-eclipsing white dwarf candidates, four of which we followed up with high-cadence photometry and spectroscopy. Three of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-10 Alekzander Kosakowski , M. Kilic , W. R. Brown , P. Bergeron , T. Kupfer

We present five recycled pulsars discovered during a 21-cm survey of approximately 4,150 deg^2 between 15 deg and 30 deg from the galactic plane using the Parkes radio telescope. One new pulsar, PSR J1528-3146, has a 61 ms spin period and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 B. A. Jacoby , M. Bailes , S. M. Ord , H. S. Knight , A. W. Hotan

The spectroscopic class of subdwarf A-type (sdA) stars has come into focus in recent years because of their possible link to extremely low-mass white dwarfs, a rare class of objects resulting from binary evolution. Although most sdA stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-29 G. Mösenlechner , E. Paunzen , I. Pelisoli , J. Seelig , S. Stidl , H. M. Maitzen

The White Dwarf Binary Pathways Survey aims at increasing the number of known detached A, F, G and K main sequence stars in close orbits with white dwarf companions (WD+AFGK binaries) to refine our understanding about compact binary…

We present 594 radial velocity measurements for 71 white dwarfs obtained during our search for binary white dwarfs and not reported elsewhere. We identify three excellent candidate binaries, which require further observations to confirm our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. F. L. Maxted , T. R. Marsh , C. K. J. Moran

The accretion of tidally disrupted planetary bodies is the current consensus model for the presence of photospheric metals commonly detected in white dwarfs. While most dynamical studies have considered a single star and associated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-21 Hiba Tu Noor , Jay Farihi , Mark Hollands , Silvia Toonen

The multiplicity properties of brown dwarfs are critical empirical constraints for formation theories, while multiples themselves provide unique opportunities to test evolutionary and atmospheric models and examine empirical trends. Studies…

We employed the Fast Folding Algorithm (FFA) on L-Band Globular Cluster (GC) observations taken with Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) to search for new pulsars, especially those with a long rotational period. We…

The fifth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V) includes the first large-scale spectroscopic survey of white dwarfs (WDs) in the era of Gaia parallaxes. SDSS-V collects multiple exposures per target, making it ideal for binary…

Low mass white dwarfs are the remnants of disrupted red giant stars in binary millisecond pulsars and other exotic binary star systems. Some low mass white dwarfs cool rapidly, while others stay bright for millions of years due to stable…

We present high-resolution spectroscopy of two nearby white dwarfs with inconsistent spectroscopic and parallax distances. The first one, PG 1632+177, is a 13th magnitude white dwarf only 25.6 pc away. Previous spectroscopic observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Mukremin Kilic , A. Bedard , P. Bergeron

Over the last decade, observational evidence has mounted that SGRs/AXPs belong to a particular class of pulsars. Furthermore, fast and very magnetic white dwarfs have been observed, and recently two SGRs with low magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-22 M. Malheiro , J. G. Coelho

We report the optical discovery of the companion to the 2 M_sun millisecond pulsar PSR J1614-2230. The optical colors show that the 0.5 M_sun companion is a 2.2 Gyr old He-CO white dwarf. We infer that $\dot{M}$ during the accretion phase…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Varun B. Bhalerao , S. R. Kulkarni

The third data release of Gaia introduced a large catalog of astrometric binaries, out of which about 3,200 are likely main-sequence stars with a white-dwarf (WD) companion. These binaries are typically found with orbital separations of ~1…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-18 Na'ama Hallakoun , Sahar Shahaf , Tsevi Mazeh , Silvia Toonen , Sagi Ben-Ami

Binary systems consisting of a white dwarf and a main-sequence companion with orbital periods up to $\approx 100$ d are often thought to be formed through common envelope evolution which is still poorly understood. To provide new…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-18 F. Lagos , M. R. Schreiber , S. G. Parsons , O. Toloza , B. T. Gänsicke , M. S. Hernandez , L. Schmidtobreick , D. Belloni

We have discovered two recycled pulsars in relativistic orbits as part of the first high-frequency survey of intermediate Galactic latitudes. PSR J1157-5112 is a 44 ms pulsar and the first recycled pulsar with an ultra-massive (M > 1.14 Mo)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. T. Edwards , M. Bailes

We have conducted a search for pulsar companions to 15 low-mass white dwarfs (LMWDs; M < 0.4 M_Sun) at 820 MHz with the NRAO Green Bank Telescope (GBT). These LMWDs were spectroscopically identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Marcel A. Agueros , Fernando Camilo , Nicole M. Silvestri , S. J. Kleinman , Scott F. Anderson , James W. Liebert