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Florida Institute of Technology

2003

Stars: Variables: General

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2mass J0516288+260738: Discovery Of The First Eclipsing Late K + Brown Dwarf Binary System?, Sonja L. Schüh, Matt A. Wood Jan 2003

2mass J0516288+260738: Discovery Of The First Eclipsing Late K + Brown Dwarf Binary System?, Sonja L. Schüh, Matt A. Wood

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications

We report the discovery of a new eclipsing system less than one arcminute south of the pulsating DB white dwarf KUV 05134+2605 . The object could be identified with the point source 2MASS J0516288+260738 published by the Two Micron All Sky Survey. We present and discuss the first light curves as well as some additional colour and spectral information. The eclipse period of the system is 1.29 d, and, assuming this to be identical to the orbital period, the best light curve solution yields a mass ratio of m₂/m₁=0.11, a radius ratio of r₂/r₁ ≈ 1 and an inclination of …


The Everchanging Pulsating White Dwarf Gd358, Souza Oliveira Kepler, Matt A. Wood, Nicole M. Silvestri, Thomas J. Ahrens Jan 2003

The Everchanging Pulsating White Dwarf Gd358, Souza Oliveira Kepler, Matt A. Wood, Nicole M. Silvestri, Thomas J. Ahrens

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications

We report 323 hours of nearly uninterrupted time series photometric observations of the DBV star GD 358 acquired with the Whole Earth Telescope (WET) during May 23rd to June 8th, 2000. We acquired more than 232 000 independent measurements. We also report on 48 hours of time-series photometric observations in Aug 1996. We detected the non-radial g-modes consistent with degree ℓ = 1 and radial order 8 to 20 and their linear combinations up to 6th order. We also detect, for the first time, a high amplitude ℓ = 2 mode, with a period of 796 s. In the 2000 …