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WD1032+011, an inflated brown dwarf in an old eclipsing binary with a white dwarf

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posted on 2020-06-23, 16:11 authored by SL Casewell, C Belardi, SG Parsons, SP Littlefair, IP Braker, JJ Hermes, J Debes, Z Vanderbosch, MR Burleigh, BT Gaensicke, VS Dhillon, TR Marsh, DE Winget, KI Winget
We present the discovery of only the third brown dwarf known to eclipse a non-accreting white dwarf. Gaia parallax information and multi-colour photometry confirm that the white dwarf is cool (9950$\pm$150K) and has a low mass (0.45$\pm$0.05~MSun), and spectra and lightcurves suggest the brown dwarf has a mass of 0.067 $\pm$0.006 MSun (70 MJup) and a spectral type of L5 $\pm$1. The kinematics of the system show that the binary is likely to be a member of the thick disk and therefore at least 5 Gyr old. The high cadence lightcurves show that the brown dwarf is inflated, making it the first brown dwarf in an eclipsing white dwarf-brown dwarf binary to be so.

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 497, Issue 3, September 2020, Pages 3571–3580, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1608

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School of Physics and Astronom

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volume

497

Issue

3

Pagination

3571-3580

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP) for Royal Astronomical Society

eissn

1365-2966

Acceptance date

2020-06-04

Copyright date

2020

Available date

2020-08-14

Language

en

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