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  2. WD J0651+2844 - Wikipedia

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    WD J0651+2844 is a white dwarf binary star system composed of two white dwarfs. [2] They are approximately 120,000 km apart and complete an orbit around their barycenter in less than 13 minutes. [1] This produces an eclipse every 6 minutes. This makes it possible to gather enough data to produce extremely accurate predictions of each future ...

  3. Binary pulsar - Wikipedia

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    An intermediate-mass binary pulsar (IMBP) is a pulsar-white dwarf binary system with a relatively long spin period of around 10–200 ms consisting of a white dwarf with a relatively high mass of approximately . [7] The spin periods, magnetic field strengths, and orbital eccentricities of IMBPs are significantly larger than those of low mass binary pulsars (LMBPs). [7]

  4. SDSS 1557 - Wikipedia

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    SDSS 1557 (SDSS J155720.77+091624.6, WD 1554+094) is a binary system composed of a white dwarf and a brown dwarf.The system is surrounded by a circumbinary debris disk.The debris disk was formed when a minor planet was tidally disrupted around the white dwarf in the past.

  5. Symbiotic binary - Wikipedia

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    They usually contain a white dwarf with a companion red giant. The cool giant star loses material via Roche lobe overflow or through its stellar wind, which flows onto the hot compact star, usually via an accretion disk. Symbiotic binaries are of particular interest to astronomers as they can be used to learn about stellar evolution.

  6. AM Canum Venaticorum star - Wikipedia

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    AM CVn stars with a white-dwarf donor can be formed when a binary consisting of a white dwarf and a low-mass giant evolve through a common-envelope (CE) phase. The outcome of the CE will be a double white-dwarf binary. Through the emission of gravitational radiation, the binary loses angular momentum, which causes

  7. Binary star - Wikipedia

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    The well-known binary star Sirius, seen here in a Hubble photograph from 2005, with Sirius A in the center, and white dwarf, Sirius B, to the left bottom from it. A binary star or binary star system is a system of two stars that are gravitationally bound to and in orbit around each other.

  8. HM Cancri - Wikipedia

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    HM Cancri (also known as HM Cnc or RX J0806.3+1527) is a binary star system about 1,600 light-years (490 pc; 1.5 × 10 16 km) away. [2] It comprises two dense white dwarfs orbiting each other once every 5.4 minutes, at an estimated distance of only 80,000 kilometres (50,000 miles) apart (about 1/5 the distance between the Earth and the Moon).

  9. White dwarf - Wikipedia

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    White dwarfs with hydrogen-poor atmospheres, such as WD J2147–4035, are less affected by CIA and therefore have a yellow to orange color. [80] [77] The white dwarf cooling sequence seen by ESA's Gaia mission. White dwarf core material is a completely ionized plasma – a mixture of nuclei and electrons – that is