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A Brown Dwarf Companion to the Nova-like Variable RW Tri

文献类型:期刊论文

作者Dai ZB(戴智斌)2,3,4; Qian SB(钱声帮)2,3,4; Medagangoda, Indika1
刊名GALAXIES
出版日期2021-12
卷号9期号:4
关键词stars: cataclysmic variables stars: binaries: eclipsing stars: individual (RW Tri)
DOI10.3390/galaxies9040094
产权排序第1完成单位
文献子类Article
英文摘要

The orbital period of Nova-like variable RW Tri is expected to experience a long-term evolution due to a stable mass transfer from the red dwarf to the white dwarf. By adding 297 new eclipse timings obtained from our own observations and a cross-identification of many databases, we fully reinvestigated the variations in orbital period of RW Tri, based on a total of 658 data points spanning over 80 years. The new O-C diagram demonstrates a more complicate pattern than a pure sinusoidal modulation shown in the previous O-C analyses. The best fit of the O-C variations is a quadratic-plus-sinusoidal curve with a period of 22.66 (2) years and a typical decrease rate of P = -2(d).32(4) x 10(-9) yr(-1). To explain secular orbital period decrease, the magnetic braking effect is required to cause the orbital angular moment loss in RW Tri with a mass ratio less than unity, while a conserved mass transfer is also enough for RW Tri with a mass ratio larger than unity. No matter what the mass ratio is, a slightly enhanced mass transfer rate, 2.4-5.3 x 10(-9) M & ODOT; yr(-1), derived from our O-C diagram, providing an evidence supporting the disk instability model and the standard/revised models of cataclysmic variable evolution, is almost the same as that obtained from the light-curve modeling. This further confirms our observed orbital period decrease and the controversial system parameter, mass transfer rate. Our updated O-C analysis further verifies the claimed cyclical changes of orbital period with a period range of 21-24 years, which is approximately one half of the results in the literature. In accordance with the light-travel time effect, this periodical variation shown in our new O-C diagram indicates a brown dwarf hidden in RW Tri at a coplanar orbit. Note that the large scatter in the data range of 0-3 x 10(4) cycles requires the high-precision photometry in the longer base line in the future.

学科主题天文学 ; 恒星与银河系
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出版地ST ALBAN-ANLAGE 66, CH-4052 BASEL, SWITZERLAND
WOS关键词ORBITAL PERIOD ANALYSIS ; CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES ; ACCRETION DISK ; MASS-TRANSFER ; ECLIPSE TIMINGS ; MODEL ; STATIONARY ; EVOLUTION
资助项目Yunnan Natural Science Foundation[2016FB007] ; Chinese Natural Science Foundation[11933008] ; NASA Office of Space Science ; NASA Explorer Program ; Masaryk University, Czech Republic[CZ.1.05/3.2.00/08.0144]
WOS研究方向Astronomy & Astrophysics
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:000738889200001
出版者MDPI
资助机构Yunnan Natural Science Foundation[2016FB007] ; Chinese Natural Science Foundation[11933008] ; NASA Office of Space Science ; NASA Explorer Program ; Masaryk University, Czech Republic[CZ.1.05/3.2.00/08.0144]
源URL[http://ir.ynao.ac.cn/handle/114a53/25184]  
专题云南天文台_双星与变星研究组
通讯作者Dai ZB(戴智斌)
作者单位1.Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies, Moratuwa 10400, Sri Lanka
2.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
3.Center for Astronomical Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
4.Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650216, China
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Dai ZB,Qian SB,Medagangoda, Indika. A Brown Dwarf Companion to the Nova-like Variable RW Tri[J]. GALAXIES,2021,9(4).
APA Dai ZB,Qian SB,&Medagangoda, Indika.(2021).A Brown Dwarf Companion to the Nova-like Variable RW Tri.GALAXIES,9(4).
MLA Dai ZB,et al."A Brown Dwarf Companion to the Nova-like Variable RW Tri".GALAXIES 9.4(2021).

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