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2021ApJ...921..160C - Astrophys. J., 921, 160-160 (2021/November-2)

A 99 minute double-lined white dwarf binary from SDSS-V.

CHANDRA V., HWANG H.-C., ZAKAMSKA N.L., GANSICKE B.T., HERMES J.J., SCHWOPE A., BADENES C., TOVMASSIAN G., BAUER E.B., MAOZ D., SCHREIBER M.R., TOLOZA O.F., INIGHT K.P., RIX H.-W. and BROWN W.R.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the discovery of SDSS J133725.26+395237.7 (hereafter SDSS J1337+3952), a double-lined white dwarf (WD+WD) binary identified in early data from the fifth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V). The double-lined nature of the system enables us to fully determine its orbital and stellar parameters with follow-up Gemini spectroscopy and Swift UVOT ultraviolet fluxes. The system is nearby (d = 113 pc), and consists of a 0.51 M☉ primary and a 0.32 M☉ secondary. SDSS J1337+3952 is a powerful source of gravitational waves in the millihertz regime, and will be detectable by future space-based interferometers. Due to this gravitational wave emission, the binary orbit will shrink down to the point of interaction in ≃220 Myr. The inferred stellar masses indicate that SDSS J1337+3952 will likely not explode as a Type Ia supernova (SN Ia). Instead, the system will probably merge and evolve into a rapidly rotating helium star and could produce an underluminous thermonuclear supernova along the way. The continuing search for similar systems in SDSS-V will grow the statistical sample of double-degenerate binaries across parameter space, constraining models of binary evolution and SNe Ia.

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Journal keyword(s): White dwarf stars - DA stars - Spectroscopic binary stars - Detached binary stars - Gravitational wave sources

Simbad objects: 1

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