期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 717, 期 2, 页码 L108-L112出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/717/2/L108
关键词
binaries: eclipsing; stars: individual (NLTT 11748); white dwarfs
资金
- NASA [01207.01-A, NAS 5-26555]
- NSF [PHY 05-51164, AST 07-07633]
I demonstrate that an effect similar to the Romer delay, familiar from timing radio pulsars, should be detectable in the first eclipsing double white dwarf (WD) binary, NLTT 11748. By measuring the difference of the time between the secondary and primary eclipses from one-half period (4.6 s), one can determine the physical size of the orbit and hence constrain the masses of the individual WDs. A measurement with uncertainty <0.1 s-possible with modern large telescopes-will determine the individual masses to +/- 0.02 M-circle dot when combined with good-quality (<1 kms(-1)) radial velocity data, although the eccentricity must also be known to high accuracy (+/- 10(-3)). Mass constraints improve as P-(1/2) ( where P is the orbital period), so this works best in wide binaries and should be detectable even for non-degenerate stars, but such constraints require the mass ratio to differ from 1, as well as undistorted orbits.
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