Minimum Orbital Period of Pre-Cataclysmic Variables
arXiv:1808.03423 · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aae0f9
Abstract
More than 20 pre-cataclysmic variable (pre-CV) systems have now been discovered with very short orbital periods ranging from 250 min down to 68 min. A pre-CV consists of a white dwarf or hot subdwarf primary and a low-mass companion star, where the companion star has successfully ejected the common envelope of the primary progenitor, but mass transfer from the companion star to the primary has not yet commenced. In this short-period range, a substantial fraction of the companion stars are likely to be either brown dwarfs with masses or stars at the bottom of the MS (). The discovery of these short-period pre-CVs raises the question -- what is the shortest possible orbital period of such systems? We ran 500 brown dwarf/low-mass main sequence models with {\tt MESA} that cover the mass range from 0.002 to 0.1 . We find the shortest possible orbital period is 40 min with a corresponding brown dwarf mass of 0.07 for an age equal to a Hubble time. We discuss the past evolution of these systems through the common envelope and suggest that many of the systems with present day white dwarf primaries may have exited the common envelope with the primary as a helium burning hot subdwarf. We also characterize the future evolution of the observed systems, which includes a phase as CVs below the conventional period minimum.
arXiv comment13 pages, 7 figures, submitted to ApJ (July 26, 2018), corresponding author email: [email protected]
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