SDSS post-common envelope binaries. X

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We present the first white dwarf mass distributions of a large and homogeneous sample of post-common envelope binaries (PCEBs) and wide white dwarf main-sequence (WDMS) binaries directly obtained from observations. Both distributions are statistically independent, with PCEBs showing a clear concentration of systems towards the low-mass end of the distribution and the white dwarf mass distribution of wide WDMS binaries being similar to that of single white dwarfs. Our results provide evidence that the majority of low-mass (Mwd<~0.5M_{sun}_) white dwarfs are formed in close binaries.

Cone search capability for table J/MNRAS/413/1121/table1 (White dwarf masses for the 211 SDSS WDMS binaries (76 PCEBs and 135 wide WDMS binary candidates) used in this work)

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.74131121
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/413/1121
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/413/1121
Related Identifier http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/413/1121
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/413/1121
Provenance
Creator Rebassa-Mansergas A.; Nebot Gomez-Moran A.; Schreiber M.R.; Girven J.,Gansicke B.T.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2012
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Physics; Stellar Astronomy