WD1032 + 011, an inflated brown dwarf in an old eclipsing binary with a white dwarf
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2020-09-21
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Casewell, S.L.
Belardi, C.
Parsons, S.G.
Littlefair, S.P.
Braker, I.P.
Hermes, J.J.
Debes, John
Vanderbosch, Z.
Burleigh, M.R.
Gänsicke, B.T.
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S.L. Casewell, C. Belardi, S.G. Parsons, S.P. Littlefair, I.P. Braker, J.J. Hermes, J. Debes, Z. Vanderbosch, M.R. Burleigh, B.T. Gänsicke, V.S. Dhillon, T.R. Marsh, D.E. Winget, K.I. Winget. 2020. "WD1032 + 011, an inflated brown dwarf in an old eclipsing binary with a white dwarf." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 497, Issue 3, pp. 3571 - 3580. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1608
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We present the discovery of only the third brown dwarf known to eclipse a non-accreting white dwarf. Gaia parallax information and multicolour photometry confirm that the white dwarf is cool (9950 ± 150 K) and has a low mass (0.45 ± 0.05 M⊙), and spectra and light curves suggest the brown dwarf has a mass of 0.067 ± 0.006 M⊙ (70MJup) and a spectral type of L5 ± 1. The kinematics of the system show that the binary is likely to be a member of the thick disc and therefore at least 5-Gyr old. The high-cadence light curves 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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This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 497, Issue 3, pp. 3571–3580. © 2020 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.