Discovery of a magnetic white dwarf with unusual short-period variability

Aleks Scholz; Joe Llama; Koraljka Muzic; Sarah Faller; Dirk Froebrich; Beate Stelzer

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Discovery of a magnetic white dwarf with unusual short-period variability

Aleks Scholz, Joe Llama, Koraljka Muzic, Sarah Faller, Dirk Froebrich, Beate Stelzer

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We report the discovery of a magnetic white dwarf which shows periodicvariability with P=110 min, color-dependent amplitudes and a transientphase shift in the blue compared to the red lightcurve - a previouslyunknown type of variability for this type of object. We attribute thevariations either to a close ultracool (thus far undetected) companionor, more likely, to magnetic spots with unusual temperature structure.

Original language	English
Article number	27
Journal	Research Notes of the AAS
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/aaadbf
Publication status	Published - 12 Feb 2018

Keywords

Stars: magnetic field
Stars: peculiar
Starspots
White dwarfs

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