Evidence for a substellar secondary in the magnetic cataclysmic binary EF Eridani

K. Beuermann, P. Wheatley, G. Ramsay +2

Low-state spectrophotometry of the short-period polar EF Eridani (Porb=81 min) found the system at V=18.0 with no trace of the companion (Wheatley and Ramsay 1998). We show that th…