Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2024
Abstract
We present the discoveries of two of AM CVn systems, Gaia14aae and SDSS J080449.49+161624.8, which show X-ray pulsations at their orbital periods, indicative of magnetically collimated accretion. Both also show indications of higher rates of mass transfer relative to the expectations from binary evolution driven purely by gravitational radiation, based on existing optical data for Gaia14aae, which show a hotter white dwarf temperature than expected from standard evolutionary models, and X-ray data for SDSS J080449.49+161624.8 which show a luminosity 10−100 times higher than those for other AM CVn at similar orbital periods. The higher mass transfer rates could be driven by magnetic braking from the disc wind interacting with the magnetosphere of the tidally locked accretor. We discuss implications of this additional angular momentum transport mechanism for evolution and gravitational wave detectability of AM CVn objects.
Recommended Citation
Maccarone, Thomas J., Thomas Kupfer, Edgar Najera Casarrubias, Liliana E. Rivera Sandoval, Aarran W. Shaw, Christoper T. Britt, Jan van Roestel, and David R. Zurek. "Strongly magnetized accretion in two ultracompact binary systems." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 529, no. 1 (2024): L28-L32. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slad194
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Publication Title
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
DOI
10.1093/mnrasl/slad194
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