Post common envelope binary
A Post-Common Envelope Binary, PCEB or pre-cataclysmic variable is a binary consisting of a white dwarf and a main-sequence star or a brown dwarf.[1] The star or brown dwarf shared a common envelope with the white dwarf progenitor in the red giant phase. In this scenario the star or brown dwarf loses angular momentum as it orbits within the envelope, eventually leaving a main-sequence star and white dwarf in a short-period orbit. A PCEB will continue to lose angular momentum via magnetic braking and gravitational waves and will eventually begin mass-transfer, resulting in a cataclysmic variable. While there are thousands of PCEBs known, there are only a few eclipsing PCEBs, also called ePCEBs.[2] Even more rare are PCEBs with a brown dwarf as the secondary.[1] A brown dwarf with a mass lower than 20 MJ might evaporate during the common envelope phase and therefore the secondary is supposed to have a mass higher than 20 MJ.[3]
The material ejected from the common envelope forms a planetary nebula. One in five planetary nebulae are ejected from common envelopes, but this might be an underestimate. A planetary nebula formed by a common envelope system usually shows a bipolar structure.[4]
The suspected PCEB HD 101584 is surrounded by an complex nebula. During the common envelope phase the red giant phase of the primary was terminated prematurely that ended avoiding a stellar merger. The remaining hydrogen envelope of HD 101584 was ejected during the interaction between the red giant and the companion and it now forms the circumstellar medium around the binary.[5]
List of post-common envelope binaries
Sorted by increasing orbital period.
Name | Period | Secondary | Note |
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SDSS J1205-0242 | 71.2 minutes[6] | low mass star or brown dwarf | shortest period PCEB (as of 2017) |
WD 0137−349 | 116 minutes | brown dwarf | first confirmed PCEB with a brown dwarf as a companion |
CSS21055 | 121.73 minutes[7] | brown dwarf | eclipsing binary |
SDSS 1557 | 2.27 hours[8] | brown dwarf | circumbinary debris disk with a polluted white dwarf |
NN Serpentis | 3.12 hours | red dwarf | eclipsing binary |
WD 0837+185 | 4.2 hours[9] | brown dwarf | extreme mass ratio of the progenitor, with the primary having a mass of 3.5-3.7 M☉ and the secondary 25-30 MJ |
RR Caeli | 7.2 hours | red dwarf | eclipsing binary |
central source of Hen 2-11 | 14.616 hours[10] | K-type main sequence star | planetary nebula and eclipsing binary |
K 1-2 | 16.2192 hours[11] | planetary nebula | |
central source of Fleming 1 | 1.1953 days[12] | white dwarf | planetary nebula |
KOI-256 | 1.37865 days[2] | red dwarf | eclipsing binary |
central source of NGC 2392 | 1.9 days[13] | hot white dwarf | planetary nebula and x-ray binary |
central source of NGC 5189 | 4.04 days[14] | massive white dwarf | planetary nebula; primary is a low-mass Wolf-Rayet star |
central source of NGC 2346 | 16 days[15] | >3.5 M☉ sub-giant | planetary nebula; one of the longest period PCEB which could host the most massive secondary |
HD 101584 | 150-200 days[5] | red dwarf or white dwarf | the engulfment of the companion probably triggered gas to outflow, creating the nebula, seen with Hubble and ALMA; primary is a post-RGB star |
See also
- Cataclysmic variable
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