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来自SDSS-I的新近双星系统(数据发布5)和在激变变星系统中寻找磁白矮星

New Close Binary Systems from the SDSS-I (Data Release Five) and the Search for Magnetic White Dwarfs in Cataclysmic Variable Progenitor Systems

Nicole M. Silvestri, Mara P. Lemagie, Suzanne L. Hawley, Andrew A. West, Gary D. Schmidt, James Liebert, Paula Szkody, Lee Mannikko, Michael A. Wolfe, J. C. Bar… 展开作者

Nicole M. Silvestri, Mara P. Lemagie, Suzanne L. Hawley, Andrew A. West, Gary D. Schmidt, James Liebert, Paula Szkody, Lee Mannikko, Michael A. Wolfe, J. C. Barentine, Howard J. Brewington, Michael Harvanek, Jurik Krzesinski, Dan Long, Donald P. Schneider, Stephanie A. Snedden

摘要:

我们目前的最新目录超过1200光谱选择密切的双星系统观察斯隆数字巡天通过数据发布五。我们利用这个星表在灾变变星系统中寻找磁性白矮星。考虑到大约25%的激变变星包含磁性白矮星,而我们的大样本密近双星系统应该包含许多激变变星的祖先,我们在这个样本中只发现两个潜在的磁性白矮星是非常令人惊讶的。候选的磁性白矮星,如果得到确认,将拥有相对较低的磁场强度(B_WD < 10 MG),类似于中极星,但远低于目前极星的平均磁场强度。需要对这些系统进行额外的观测,才能确定白矮星是磁性的。即使这两个系统被证明是分离的磁白矮星+ M矮星双星的第一个证据,目前已知的激变变星群和假定的近距离双星祖先的性质之间仍然有很大的差距。

英文摘要:

We present the latest catalog of more than 1200 spectroscopically-selected close binary systems observed with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey through Data Release Five. We use the catalog to search for magnetic white dwarfs in cataclysmic variable progenitor systems. Given that approximately 25% of cataclysmic variables contain a magnetic white dwarf, and that our large sample of close binary systems should contain many progenitors of cataclysmic variables, it is quite surprising that we find only two potential magnetic white dwarfs in this sample. The candidate magnetic white dwarfs, if confirmed, would possess relatively low magnetic field strengths (B_WD < 10 MG) that are similar to those of intermediate-Polars but are much less than the average field strength of the current Polar population. Additional observations of these systems are required to definitively cast the white dwarfs as magnetic. Even if these two systems prove to be the first evidence of detached magnetic white dwarf + M dwarf binaries, there is still a large disparity between the properties of the presently known cataclysmic variable population and the presumed close binary progenitors.

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