Orbital Decay in an Accreting and Eclipsing 13.7 Minute Orbital Period Binary with a Luminous Donor

Orbital Decay in an Accreting and Eclipsing 13.7 Minute Orbital Period Binary with a Luminous Donor

We report the discovery of ZTF J0127+5258, a compact mass-transferring binary with an orbital period of 13.7 minutes. The system contains a white dwarf accretor, which likely originated as a post–common envelope carbon–oxygen (CO) white dwarf, and a warm donor ( T _eff,donor = 16,400 ± 1000 K). The...

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Main Authors: Kevin B. Burdge, Kareem El-Badry, Saul Rappaport, Tin Long Sunny Wong, Evan B. Bauer, Lars Bildsten, Ilaria Caiazzo, Deepto Chakrabarty, Emma Chickles, Matthew J. Graham, Erin Kara, S. R. Kulkarni, Thomas R. Marsh, Melania Nynka, Thomas A. Prince, Robert A. Simcoe, Jan van Roestel, Zach Vanderbosch, Eric C. Bellm, Richard G. Dekany, Andrew J. Drake, George Helou, Frank J. Masci, Jennifer Milburn, Reed Riddle, Ben Rusholme, Roger Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Subjects:
Close binary stars
Eclipsing binary stars
Gravitational wave sources
X-ray binary stars
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ace7cf

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