Bibcode
Kupfer, Thomas; Bauer, Evan B.; Burdge, Kevin B.; Roestel, Jan van; Bellm, Eric C.; Fuller, Jim; Hermes, JJ; Marsh, Thomas R.; Bildsten, Lars; Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.; Phinney, E. S.; Prince, Thomas A.; Szkody, Paula; Yao, Yuhan; Irrgang, Andreas; Heber, Ulrich; Schneider, David; Dhillon, Vik S.; Murawski, Gabriel; Drake, Andrew J.; Duev, Dmitry A.; Feeney, Michael; Graham, Matthew J.; Laher, Russ R.; Littlefair, S. P.; Mahabal, A. A.; Masci, Frank J.; Porter, Michael; Reiley, Dan; Rodriguez, Hector; Rusholme, Ben; Shupe, David L.; Soumagnac, Maayane T.
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal
Fecha de publicación:
7
2020
Revista
Número de citas
41
Número de citas referidas
39
Descripción
We present the discovery of the second binary with a Roche lobe-filling hot subdwarf transferring mass to a white dwarf (WD) companion. This 56 minute binary was discovered using data from the Zwicky Transient Facility. Spectroscopic observations reveal an He-sdOB star with an effective temperature of Teff = 33,700 ± 1000 K and a surface gravity of log(g) = 5.54 ± 0.11. The GTC+HiPERCAM light curve is dominated by the ellipsoidal deformation of the He-sdOB star and shows an eclipse of the He-sdOB by an accretion disk as well as a weak eclipse of the WD. We infer a He-sdOB mass of MsdOB = 0.41 ± 0.04 M☉ and a WD mass of MWD = 0.68 ± 0.05 M☉. The weak eclipses imply a WD blackbody temperature of 63,000 ± 10,000 K and a radius RWD = 0.0148 ± 0.0020 R☉ as expected for a WD of such high temperature. The He-sdOB star is likely undergoing hydrogen shell burning and will continue transferring mass for ≍1 Myr at a rate of 10-9 M☉ yr-1, which is consistent with the high WD temperature. The hot subdwarf will then turn into a WD and the system will merge in ≍30 Myr. We suggest that Galactic reddening could bias discoveries toward preferentially finding Roche lobe-filling systems during the short-lived shell-burning phase. Studies using reddening-corrected samples should reveal a large population of helium core-burning hot subdwarfs with Teff ≍ 25,000 K in binaries of 60-90 minutes with WDs. Though not yet in contact, these binaries would eventually come into contact through gravitational-wave emission and explode as a subluminous thermonuclear supernova or evolve into a massive single WD.
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