The Silent Majority: The Interacting Post-Common-Envelope Binaries Underlying Cataclysmic Variables

Yarin Meir Shani, Na'ama Hallakoun, Sagi Ben-Ami +4

We analyze the orbital period distribution of post-common-envelope white-dwarf-main-sequence (WDMS) binaries by cross-matching the new spectroscopic Gaia DR3 WDMS catalog with TESS…