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RADIUS CONSTRAINTS FROM HIGH-SPEED PHOTOMETRY OF 20 LOW-MASS WHITE DWARF BINARIES

RADIUS CONSTRAINTS FROM HIGH-SPEED PHOTOMETRY OF 20 LOW-MASS WHITE DWARF BINARIES

We carry out high-speed photometry on 20 of the shortest-period, detached white dwarf binaries known and discover systems with eclipses, ellipsoidal variations (due to tidal deformations of the visible white dwarf), and Doppler beaming. All of the binaries contain low-mass white dwarfs with orbital periods of less than four hr. …