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2005A&A...434L..13V - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 434L13-16 (2005/5-2)

Identification of 13 DB + dM and 2 DC + dM binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

VAN DEN BESSELAAR E.J.M., ROELOFS G.H.A., NELEMANS G.A., AUGUSTEIJN T. and GROOT P.J.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present the identification of 13 DB + dM binaries and 2 DC + dM binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Before the SDSS only 2 DB + dM binaries and 1 DC + dM binary were known. At least three, possibly 8, of the new DB + dM binaries seem to have white dwarf temperatures well above 30000K which would place them in the so called DB-gap. Finding these DB white dwarfs in binaries may suggest that they have formed through a different evolutionary channel than the ones in which DA white dwarfs transform into DB white dwarfs due to convection in the upper layers.

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Journal keyword(s): binaries: spectroscopic - white dwarfs - stars: late-type - stars: evolution

Simbad objects: 19

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