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| Paper: |
The Discovery of Non-radially Pulsating White Dwarfs in Cataclysmic Variables from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
| Volume: |
330, The Astrophysics of Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects |
| Page: |
325 |
| Authors: |
Woudt, P.A.; Warner, B.; Pretorius, M.L.; Dale, D. |
| Abstract: |
The group of known non-radially pulsating white dwarfs in cataclysmic variables (CVs) has quintupled in the last year. These are all systems of low mass-transfer rate in which the central white dwarf is located in the ZZ Ceti instability strip (Teff ~ 11,000 − 12,500 K). Due to the low mass-transfer rate, these systems are intrinsically faint and it is only due to surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) that this population of CV/ZZ hybrids is being uncovered in a systematic way. It is estimated that among the ~ 400 CVs expected in the SDSS, about ~ 32 systems will be CV/ZZ stars. Within such a sample undoubtedly some (low amplitude ZZ Ceti pulsators) will exist that are suitable for detailed analysis and identification of pulsation modes in order to study the influence of accretion on the internal structure of white dwarfs. Here we present results from our ongoing high-speed photometric survey (using the UCT CCD) of the newly identified SDSS CV/ZZ stars, including two CV/ZZ candidates. |
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