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astro-ph.SR2026

Now you see me, now you don't: Deep, long-lived obscuration events of white dwarfs by dust and debris from disintegrating planetesimals

J. van Roestel, S. Bhattacharjee, J. A. Guidry +22

Transiting dust and debris around white dwarfs provide a direct view of planetary disruption. We report six previously non-variable white dwarfs that underwent single, deep obscura…

astro-ph.SR2026

The Physics of Mass Transfer in Substellar and Low-Mass Binaries

Samuel Whitebook, Jim Fuller, Kevin Burdge +3

Several dozen binary ultracool and brown dwarf systems have been identified to date. These systems represent valuable probes of star and planet formation at the lowest mass scales.…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 1 cited

A Mass Transferring Brown Dwarf Binary on a 57 Minute Orbit

Samuel Whitebook, Antonio C. Rodriguez, Kevin Burdge +9

Mass transfer in stellar binaries has been well studied in most stellar mass ranges, with the notable exception of ultracool stars and substellar brown dwarfs. We report the discov…

astro-ph.SR2025

Circumstellar interaction in the extreme white dwarf merger remnant ZTF\,J1901+1458: A new class of white dwarf merger remnants with X-ray emission

Aayush Desai, Ilaria Caiazzo, Stephane Vennes +31

Double degenerate white dwarf (WD) mergers can exhibit extreme magnetic fields exceeding G and rapid rotation, but their spectral-energy distributions and high-energy emis…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 4 cited

A half-ring of ionized circumstellar material trapped in the magnetosphere of a white dwarf merger remnant

Andrei A. Cristea, Ilaria Caiazzo, Tim Cunningham +31

Many white dwarfs are observed in compact double white dwarf binaries and, through the emission of gravitational waves, a large fraction are destined to merge. The merger remnants…

astro-ph.SR2025

Eclipsing white dwarf from the Zwicky Transient Facility: II. Seven eclipsing double white dwarfs

J. van Roestel, K. Burdge, I. Caiazzo +15

In a systematic search for eclipsing white dwarfs using Zwicky transient facility (ZTF) data, we found seven eclipsing double white dwarfs with orbital periods ranging from 45 minu…

astro-ph.SR2025

Variability of Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae with the Zwicky Transient Facility. II. Long-Timescale Variables including Wide Binary and Late Thermal Pulse Candidates

Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee, Nicole Reindl, Howard E. Bond +14

In this second paper on our variability survey of central stars of planetary nebulae (CSPNe) using ZTF, we report 11 long-timescale variables with variability timescales ranging fr…

astro-ph.GA2025

QZO: A Catalog of 5 Million Quasars from the Zwicky Transient Facility

S. J. Nakoneczny, M. J. Graham, D. Stern +11

Machine learning methods are well established in the classification of quasars (QSOs). However, the advent of light curve observations adds a great amount of complexity to the prob…

astro-ph.SR2025

A Link Between White Dwarf Pulsars and Polars: Multiwavelength Observations of the 9.36-Minute Period Variable Gaia22ayj

Antonio C. Rodriguez, Kareem El-Badry, Pasi Hakala +30

White dwarfs (WDs) are the most abundant compact objects, and recent surveys have suggested that over a third of WDs in accreting binaries host a strong (B 1 MG) magnetic…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 8 cited

Cyclotron emitting magnetic white dwarfs in post common envelope binaries discovered with the Zwicky Transient Facility

J. van Roestel, A. C. Rodriguez, P. Szkody +20

We present the discovery of 14 new (and recovery of 4 known) low accretion rate magnetic white dwarfs in post-common envelope binaries that emit strong cyclotron emission using the…

astro-ph.HE2024

Expanding the ultracompacts: gravitational wave-driven mass transfer in the shortest-period binaries with accretion disks

Joheen Chakraborty, Kevin B. Burdge, Saul A. Rappaport +35

We report the discovery of three ultracompact binary white dwarf systems hosting accretion disks, with orbital periods of 7.95, 8.68, and 13.15 minutes. This significantly augments…

astro-ph.SR2024

Variability of Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae with the Zwicky Transient Facility. I. Methods, Short-Timescale Variables, Binary Candidates, and the Unusual Nucleus of WeSb 1

Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee, S. R. Kulkarni, Albert K. H. Kong +16

Over the past several decades, time-series photometry of CSPNe has yielded significant results including, but not limited to, discoveries of nearly 100 binary systems, insights int…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

PKS 2131-021 -- Discovery of Strong Coherent Sinusoidal Variations from Radio to Optical Frequencies: Compelling Evidence for a Blazar Supermassive Black Hole Binary

S. Kiehlmann, P. V. de la Parra, A. G. Sullivan +31

Haystack and Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) observations recently revealed strong, intermittent, sinusoidal total flux-density variations that maintained coherence between 1…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 4 cited

Four new eclipsing accreting ultracompact white dwarf binaries found with the Zwicky Transient Facility

J. M. Khalil, J. van Roestel, E. C. Bellm +10

Context. Accreting ultracompact binaries contain a white dwarf that is accreting from a degenerate object and have orbital periods shorter than 65 minutes. Aims. The aims of this l…