A post-common-envelope binary with double-peaked Balmer emission lines from TMTS

Abstract

The dynamical method provides an efficient way to discover post-common-envelope binaries (PCEB) with faint white dwarfs (WDs), thanks to the development of time-domain survey projects. We perform a comprehensive analysis of the PCEB system TMTS J15530469+4457458 (J1553), discovered by the Tsinghua University-Ma Huateng Telescopes for Survey, to explore its physical origin and evolutionary fate. This system is characterized by double-peaked Balmer emission lines, and a cross-correlation function is applied to derive its radial velocity (RV) from a series of phase-resolved Keck spectra. Analyses with the cross-correlation function suggest that this system is a single-lined spectroscopic binary and only one star is optically visible. Further analysis through Doppler tomography indicates that J1553 is a detached binary without an accretion disk. Under such a configuration, the simultaneous light-curve and RV fitting reveal that this system contains an unseen WD with mass $M_{\mathrm{A}}=0.56\pm 0.09M_{\odot }$, and an M4 dwarf with mass $M_{\mathrm{B}}=0.37\pm 0.02M_{\odot }$ and radius $R_{\mathrm{B}}=0.403_{-0.015}^{+0.014}{R}_{\odot }$. The extra prominent Balmer emission lines seen in the spectra can trace the motion of the WD, which are likely formed near the WD surface as a result of wind accretion. According to the MESA simulation, J1553 could have evolved from a binary consisting of a 2.0-4.0 $M_{\odot }$ zero-age-main-sequence star and an M dwarf with an initial orbital period $P_i\approx 201-476$ d, and the system has undergone a common-envelope (CE) phase. After about $3.3\times 10^6$ yr, J1553 should evolve into a cataclysmic variable, with a transient state as a supersoft X-ray source at the beginning. J1553 is an excellent system for studying wind accretion, CE ejection physics, and binary evolution theory.

7 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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