Speaker
CLAUDIA RODRIGUES
(Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais)
Description
In this talk, we present the recent determination of the spin period of CTCV J2056-3014, a magnetic white dwarf in a cataclymisc binary system. Its X-ray and optical emission is clearly modulated with a 29.6 s period and points to an accretion origin. We briefly discuss this object in the context of other fast-spinning white dwarfs.
Primary author
CLAUDIA RODRIGUES
(Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais)
Co-authors
A. S. Oliveira
(Universidade do Vale do Paraíba/Brazil)
K. Mukai
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center & University of Maryland/USA)
A. Bruch
(Laboratório Nacional de Astrofísica/Brazil)
R. Lopes de Oliveira
(Universidade Federal de Sergipe & Observatório Nacional/Brazil)
