Two Candidate KH 15D-like Systems from the Zwicky Transient Facility

分类： 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间： 2023-02-19

Wei Zhu Klaus Bernhard Fei Dai Min Fang J. J. Zanazzi Weicheng Zang Subo Dong Franz-Josef Hambsch Tianjun Gan Zexuan Wu Michael Poon

摘要： KH 15D contains a circumbinary disk that is tilted relative to the orbital plane of the central binary. The precession of the disk and the orbital motion of the binary together produce rich phenomena in the photometric light curve. In this work, we present the discovery and preliminary analysis of two objects that resemble the key features of KH 15D from the Zwicky Transient Facility. These new objects, Bernhard-1 and Bernhard-2, show large-amplitude ($>1.5\,$mag), long-duration (more than tens of days), and periodic dimming events. A one-sided screen model is developed to model the photometric behaviour of these objects, the physical interpretation of which is a tilted, warped circumbinary disk occulting the inner binary. Changes in the object light curves suggest potential precession periods over timescales longer than 10 years. Additional photometric and spectroscopic observations are encouraged to better understand the nature of these interesting systems.

同行评议状态:待评议

 点击量 41  下载量 33  评论 0