Most extremely low mass white dwarfs with non-degenerate companions are inner binaries of hierarchical triples
Date Issued
2024-10
Author(s) USM
Hernandez, M.
DOI
10.1093/mnras/stae2310
Abstract
Extremely low-mass white dwarfs (ELM WDs) with non-degenerate companions are believed to originate from solar-type main-sequence binaries undergoing stable Roche lobe overflow mass transfer when the ELM WD progenitor is at (or just past) the termination o
