Kavli Affiliate: Scott A. Hughes | First 5 Authors: Joheen Chakraborty, Kevin B. Burdge, Saul A. Rappaport, James Munday, Hai-Liang Chen | Summary: We report the discovery of three ultracompact binary white dwarf systems hosting accretion disks, with orbital periods of 7.95, 8.68, and 13.15 minutes. This significantly augments the population of mass-transferring binaries at […]
Continue.. Expanding the ultracompacts: gravitational wave-driven mass transfer in the shortest-period binaries with accretion disks