Publication: The eclipsing post-common envelope binary CSS21055: a white dwarf with a probable brown-dwarf companion
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Date
2013
Authors
Beuermann, Klaus
Dreizler, Stefan
Hessman, Frederic V.
Husser, Tim-Oliver
Nortmann, L.
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Edp Sciences S A
Abstract
We report photometric observations of the eclipsing close binary CSS21055 (SDSS J141126+200911) that strongly suggest that the companion to the carbon-oxygen white dwarf is a brown dwarf with a mass between 0.030 and 0.074 M-circle dot. The measured orbital period is 121.73 min and the totality of the eclipse lasts 125 s. If confirmed, CSS21055 would be the first detached eclipsing WD+BD binary. Spectroscopy in the eclipse could provide information about the companion's evolutionary state and atmospheric structure.