1–5 Jul 2019
Geological Museum
Europe/Copenhagen timezone

Close Double White Dwarfs from Gaia

1 Jul 2019, 11:00
35m
Main Auditorium (Geological Museum)

Main Auditorium

Geological Museum

Øster Voldgade 5-7 DK-1350 Copenhagen

Speaker

Tom Marsh (University of Warwick)

Description

I will report on a programme of double white dwarf discovery from targets selected from Gaia DR2 from their location in the H-R diagram. Targets are chosen from their location above the main white dwarf cooling sequence in terms of luminosity. This favours double white dwarfs with equal contributions from the two stars and a number of new systems have been discovered. These are of particular interest for their mass ratios which have long been problematic for close double white dwarfs. I will also discuss the known sample of double white dwarfs with reference to the Gaia DR2 H-R diagram.

Primary author

Tom Marsh (University of Warwick)

Co-authors

Prof. Gijs Nelemans (Radboud University) Dr Silvia Toonen (University of Birmingham) Ms Sabrina Outmani (University of Warwick) Mr Tim Cunningham (University of Warwick) Dr Elme Breedt

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