White Dwarf Binaries: Probes of Future Astrophysics
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| author | Pala, Anna F. Raddi, Roberto Rebassa-Mansergas, Alberto Gänsicke, Boris T. Anderson, Richard I. Belloni, Diogo Binnenfeld, Avraham Breedt, Elmé Buckley, David Cunningham, Tim Ederoclite, Alessandro Escorza, Ana Korol, Valeriya Kupfer, Thomas de Martino, Domitilla Merc, Jaroslav Meza, Joaquin Parsons, Steven Pelisoli, Ingrid Reindl, Nicole Rodríguez-Gil, Pablo Santos-García, Alejandro Scaringi, Simone Szkody, Paula Toloza, Odette Torres, Santiago Uzundag, Murat Zorotovic, Monica |
| author_facet | Pala, Anna F. Raddi, Roberto Rebassa-Mansergas, Alberto Gänsicke, Boris T. Anderson, Richard I. Belloni, Diogo Binnenfeld, Avraham Breedt, Elmé Buckley, David Cunningham, Tim Ederoclite, Alessandro Escorza, Ana Korol, Valeriya Kupfer, Thomas de Martino, Domitilla Merc, Jaroslav Meza, Joaquin Parsons, Steven Pelisoli, Ingrid Reindl, Nicole Rodríguez-Gil, Pablo Santos-García, Alejandro Scaringi, Simone Szkody, Paula Toloza, Odette Torres, Santiago Uzundag, Murat Zorotovic, Monica |
| contents | White dwarf binaries are fundamental astrophysical probes. They represent ideal laboratories to test the models of binary evolution, which also apply to the sources of gravitational waves, whose detection led to the award of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. Moreover, their final fate is intimately linked to Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia), i.e. the thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf following the interaction with a companion star, which have become the fundamental yardsticks on cosmological distance scales and led to the discovery of dark energy and the award of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. Finally, white dwarf binaries play a crucial role in influencing star formation and chemical evolution of the Galaxy by injecting energy into, and enriching, the interstellar medium with material ejected during nova eruptions and SN Ia explosions. In the next decade, the advent of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) at the Vera Rubin Observatory will lead to the discovery of hundreds of thousands of white dwarf binaries. Nonetheless, the intrinsic faintness of the majority of these systems will prevent their spectroscopic characterisation with the instruments available in the 2030s. Hence ESO's Expanding Horizons call is timely for planning a future transformative facility, capable of delivering phase-resolved spectroscopic observations of faint white dwarf binaries, which are key to advancing our understanding of stellar and Galactic evolution and cosmology. |
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| spellingShingle | White Dwarf Binaries: Probes of Future Astrophysics Pala, Anna F. Raddi, Roberto Rebassa-Mansergas, Alberto Gänsicke, Boris T. Anderson, Richard I. Belloni, Diogo Binnenfeld, Avraham Breedt, Elmé Buckley, David Cunningham, Tim Ederoclite, Alessandro Escorza, Ana Korol, Valeriya Kupfer, Thomas de Martino, Domitilla Merc, Jaroslav Meza, Joaquin Parsons, Steven Pelisoli, Ingrid Reindl, Nicole Rodríguez-Gil, Pablo Santos-García, Alejandro Scaringi, Simone Szkody, Paula Toloza, Odette Torres, Santiago Uzundag, Murat Zorotovic, Monica Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Solar and Stellar Astrophysics White dwarf binaries are fundamental astrophysical probes. They represent ideal laboratories to test the models of binary evolution, which also apply to the sources of gravitational waves, whose detection led to the award of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. Moreover, their final fate is intimately linked to Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia), i.e. the thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf following the interaction with a companion star, which have become the fundamental yardsticks on cosmological distance scales and led to the discovery of dark energy and the award of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. Finally, white dwarf binaries play a crucial role in influencing star formation and chemical evolution of the Galaxy by injecting energy into, and enriching, the interstellar medium with material ejected during nova eruptions and SN Ia explosions. In the next decade, the advent of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) at the Vera Rubin Observatory will lead to the discovery of hundreds of thousands of white dwarf binaries. Nonetheless, the intrinsic faintness of the majority of these systems will prevent their spectroscopic characterisation with the instruments available in the 2030s. Hence ESO's Expanding Horizons call is timely for planning a future transformative facility, capable of delivering phase-resolved spectroscopic observations of faint white dwarf binaries, which are key to advancing our understanding of stellar and Galactic evolution and cosmology. |
| title | White Dwarf Binaries: Probes of Future Astrophysics |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14800 |