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2 resultsastro-ph.SR2019
Self-lensing Discovery of a $0.2\,M_\odot$ White Dwarf in an Unusually Wide Orbit Around a Sun-like Star
Kento Masuda, Hajime Kawahara, David W. Latham +4
The authors report the discovery of a 0.2 M⊙ white dwarf in a wide (≈1.3 au) eccentric orbit around a Sun-like star, identified through self‑lensing events in Kepler data and confi…
#self-lensing#white dwarf#binary stars#kepler photometry
astro-ph.SR2019
A 9-Hr CV With One Outburst in 4 Years of Kepler Data
Zhifei Yu, John Thorstensen, Saul Rappaport +11
The authors report the discovery of a cataclysmic variable (KIC 5608384) in Kepler data that showed only a single four‑day outburst over four years, and they use photometry and spe…
#cataclysmic variables#white dwarf binaries#Kepler photometry#binary evolution