WD 0137−349
| Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000 | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Sculptor |
| Right ascension | 01h 39m 42.847s[1] |
| Declination | −34° 42′ 39.32″[1] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | +15.33 ± 0.02[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Spectral type | DA[3] + L8[2] |
| B−V color index | −0.02 |
| Astrometry | |
| Radial velocity (Rv) | 70[4] km/s |
| Distance | 333 ± 10 ly (102 ± 3[5] pc) |
| Orbit[5] | |
| Period (P) | 0.0803 ± 0.0002 |
| Semi-major axis (a) | 0.65 R☉ |
| Periastron epoch (T) | 2453686.5276 ± 0.0001 |
| Semi-amplitude (K1) (primary) | 27.9 ± 0.3 km/s |
| Semi-amplitude (K2) (secondary) | −187.5 ± 1.1 km/s |
| Details | |
| WD 0137-349A | |
| Mass | 0.39 ± 0.035[5] M☉ |
| Radius | 0.0186 ± 0.0012[5] R☉ |
| Luminosity | 0.023 ± 0.004[5] L☉ |
| Surface gravity (log g) | 7.49 ± 0.08[5] cgs |
| Temperature | 16500 ± 500[5] K |
| Age | 250 ± 80[5] Myr |
| WD 0137-349B | |
| Mass | 0.053 ± 0.006[2] M☉ |
| Temperature | 1300 to 1400[2] K |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | A |
| B | |
WD 0137-349 is a binary star in the constellation of Sculptor. It is located about 330 light-years (100 parsecs) away, and appears exceedingly faint with an apparent magnitude of 15.33.[2]
It is composed of a white dwarf and a brown dwarf in orbit around it, and it one of the few systems to a white dwarf and an associated brown dwarf.[5] The brown dwarf orbits with a period of 116 minutes, or nearly 2 hours.[5]
Properties
The primary is a typical hydrogen white dwarf, as indicated by its spectral type of DA. It has about 39% of the Sun's mass and is only 1.86% as wide (12,900 km).[5] With a high effective temperature of 16,500 K, it emits radiation mostly in the ultraviolet range.[7]
The brown dwarf, designated WD 0137-349B, can be detected from an infrared excess, and is a late L-type object.[2] Although it glows with an effective temperature of 1300 to 1400 K, the side facing the white dwarf's intercepts 1% of its light, and heats it up to around 2000 K.[7]
Evolution
The brown dwarf is known to have survived being engulfed when the primary star was a red giant,[5] because it was relatively massive. At that time, the red giant had a radius of 100 R☉.[8] It is thought that the red giant phase of the current white dwarf was shortened from around 100 million years on average, to a few decades—while the brown dwarf was within the red giant, it hastened the expulsion of matter during this phase by rapidly heating gas and accreting a portion of it. During this phase, drag from the red giant also decreased the orbital speed of the brown dwarf, causing it to fall inwards.[9]
The orbit of the brown dwarf is slowly decaying.[5] In about 1.4 billion years, it is thought that the orbit of the brown dwarf will have decayed sufficiently to allow the white dwarf to draw matter away and accrete it on its surface, leading to a cataclysmic variable.[5]
As of 2006, this is the coolest known companion to a white dwarf.[2] This brown dwarf is also the object with the lowest mass known to have survived being engulfed by a red giant. Previously, only red dwarfs had been known to survive being enveloped during a red giant phase. It is thought that objects smaller than 20 Jupiter masses would have evaporated.[9]
References
- ^ a b Cutri, R. M.; et al. (2003). "2MASS All-Sky Catalog of Point Sources". VizieR On-line Data Catalog. 2246. Bibcode:2003yCat.2246....0C.
- ^ a b c d e f g Burleigh, M. R.; Hogan, E.; Dobbie, P. D.; Napiwotzki, R.; Maxted, P. F. L. (2006). "A near-infrared spectroscopic detection of the brown dwarf in the post common envelope binary WD 0137-349". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 373: L55. arXiv:astro-ph/0609366. Bibcode:2006MNRAS.373L..55B. doi:10.1111/j.1745-3933.2006.00242.x.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Koester, D.; Voss, B.; Napiwotzki, R.; Christlieb, N.; Homeier, D.; Lisker, T.; Reimers, D.; Heber, U. (2009). "High-resolution UVES/VLT spectra of white dwarfs observed for the ESO SN Ia Progenitor Survey". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 505: 441. arXiv:0908.2322. Bibcode:2009A&A...505..441K. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200912531.
- ^ Beers, Timothy C.; Doinidis, Steve P.; Griffin, Kevin E.; Preston, George W.; Shectman, Stephen A. (1992). "Spectroscopy of hot stars in the Galactic halo". The Astronomical Journal. 103: 267. Bibcode:1992AJ....103..267B. doi:10.1086/116060.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Maxted, P. F. L.; Napiwotzki, R.; Dobbie, P. D.; Burleigh, M. R. (2006). "Survival of a brown dwarf after engulfment by a red giant star". Nature. 442 (7102): 543. arXiv:astro-ph/0608054. Bibcode:2006Natur.442..543M. doi:10.1038/nature04987. PMID 16885979.
- ^ "BPS CS 29504-0036". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
- ^ a b Casewell, S. L.; Lawrie, K. A.; Maxted, P. F. L.; Marley, M. S.; Fortney, J. J.; Rimmer, P. B.; Littlefair, S. P.; Wynn, G.; Burleigh, M. R.; Helling, C. (2015). "Multiwaveband photometry of the irradiated brown dwarf WD0137-349B". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 447 (4): 3218. arXiv:1412.6363. Bibcode:2015MNRAS.447.3218C. doi:10.1093/mnras/stu2721.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Passy, Jean-Claude; Mac Low, Mordecai-Mark; De Marco, Orsola (2012). "On the Survival of Brown Dwarfs and Planets Engulfed by Their Giant Host Star". The Astrophysical Journal. 759 (2): L30. arXiv:1210.0879. Bibcode:2012ApJ...795L..30P. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/759/2/L30.
- ^ a b Ker Than (2 August 2006). "Object Survives Being Swallowed by a Star". Space.com. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
External links
- "WD 0137-349". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg.
- "Special Stars: WD0137-349". Jumk.de Webprojekte. 3 August 2006.
