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The effects of unresolved double-degenerates in the white dwarf luminosity function
A. Rebassa-Mansergas, S. Toonen, S. Torres +1
We perform an analysis of the single white dwarf and the double degenerate binary populations in the solar neighbourhood following a population synthesis approach to investigate th…
An Empirical Fit for Viscoelastic Simulations of Tertiary Tides
Yan Gao, Silvia Toonen, Evgeni Grishin +2
Tertiary tides (TTs), or the continuous tidal distortion of the tertiary in a hierarchical triple system, can extract energy from the inner binary, inducing within it a proclivity…
Normal type Ia supernovae from disruptions of hybrid He-CO white-dwarfs by CO white-dwarfs
Hagai B. Perets, Yossef Zenati, Silvia Toonen +1
Type Ia supernovae (SNe) are thought to originate from the thermonuclear explosions of carbon-oxygen (CO) white dwarfs (WDs). The proposed progenitors of standard type Ia SNe have…
Transients following white dwarfs mergers
Maxim Lyutikov, Silvia Toonen
Mergers of white dwarfs (WDs) may lead to a variety of transient astrophysical events, SNIa being one possible outcome. Lyutikov & Toonen (2017, 2019) argued that mergers of WDs re…
Double white dwarf merger products among high-mass white dwarfs
Sihao Cheng, Jeffrey D. Cummings, Brice Ménard +1
Double white dwarf (double-WD) binaries may merge within a Hubble time and produce high-mass WDs. Compared to other high-mass WDs, the double-WD merger products have higher velocit…
Looks can be deceiving: underestimating the age of single white dwarfs due to binary mergers
Karel D. Temmink, Silvia Toonen, Emmanouil Zapartas +2
Context: White dwarfs (WDs) are important and abundant tools to study the structure and evolution of the Galactic environment. However, the multiplicity of WD progenitors is genera…
A Volume Limited Sample of Cataclysmic Variables from DR2: Space Density and Population Properties
A. F. Pala, B. T. Gänsicke, E. Breedt +15
We present the first volume-limited sample of cataclysmic variables (CVs), selected using the accurate parallaxes provided by the second data release (DR2) of the ESA $\mathit{Gaia…
A planetesimal orbiting within the debris disc around a white dwarf star
Christopher J. Manser, Boris T. Gänsicke, Siegfried Eggl +29
Many white dwarf stars show signs of having accreted smaller bodies, implying that they may host planetary systems. A small number of these systems contain gaseous debris discs, vi…
Astro2020 Science White Paper: Understanding the evolution of close white dwarf binaries
Odette Toloza, Elme Breed, Domitilla De Martino +27
Interacting binaries containing white dwarfs can lead to a variety of outcomes that range from powerful thermonuclear explosions, which are important in the chemical evolution of g…