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The Orbital Period Of The Pre-Cataclysmic Binary Re 2013+400 And A Study Of The Atmosphere Of The Dao White Dwarf Primary, M. A. Barstow, M. R. Burleigh, T. A. Fleming, J. B. Holberg, D. Koester, M. C. Marsh, S. R. Rosen, R. G.M. Rutten, S. Sakai, R. W. Tweedy, G. Wegner Feb 1995

The Orbital Period Of The Pre-Cataclysmic Binary Re 2013+400 And A Study Of The Atmosphere Of The Dao White Dwarf Primary, M. A. Barstow, M. R. Burleigh, T. A. Fleming, J. B. Holberg, D. Koester, M. C. Marsh, S. R. Rosen, R. G.M. Rutten, S. Sakai, R. W. Tweedy, G. Wegner

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Several pre-cataclysmic binaries, comprising a hot white dwarf with a red dwarf companion, have been discovered as a result of the optical identification of EUV sources from the ROSAT all-sky survey. The optical spectra have the steep blue continuum and Balmer absorption typical of a hot white dwarf, but there are bright, narrow emission lines of H I (and sometimes He I and Ca II) superimposed. An intense campaign of follow-up observations has been devoted to these binary systems. So far, only RE 2013+400 has exhibited any measurable changes in the radial velocities of the emission components, from which it …