The discovery of a short-period double-degenerate binary star
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The Discovery of a Short Period Double-degenerate Binary Star
We have found that the white dwarf PG 1101+364 is a double-lined white dwarf/white dwarf binary with an orbital period of 3:47 hours. PG 1101+364 is the shortest period detached double-degenerate yet found and gravitational radiation will cause it to merge in 2:5 10 9 years. PG 1101+364 has a mass ratio of 0:87 0:03. From the relative strengths of the narrow core of H, the lighter and therefore...
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عنوان ژورنال: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0035-8711,1365-2966
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/275.1.l1