@Article{PalaGBPMSBKSSTBBCMGKKLMMNNOPPRRSST:2022:CoEvCa,
               author = "Pala, Anna F. and G{\"a}nsicke, B. T. and Belloni, Diogo Teixeira 
                         and Parsons, S. G. and Marsh, T. R. and Schreiber, M. R. and 
                         Breedt, E. and Knigge, C. and Sion, E. M. and Szkody, P. and 
                         Townsley, D. and Bildsten, L. and Boyd, D. and Cook, M. J. and De 
                         Martino, D. and Godon, P. and Kafka, S. and Kouprianov, V. and 
                         Long, K. S. and Monard, B. and Myers, G. and Nelson, P. and 
                         Nogami, D. and Oksanen, A. and Pickard, R. and Poyner, G. and 
                         Reichart, D. E. and Rodriguez Perez, D. and Shears, J. and 
                         Stubbings, R. and Toloza, O.",
          affiliation = "{European Space Agency} and {University of Warwick} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {University of 
                         Sheffield} and {University of Warwick} and {Universidad 
                         T{\'e}cnica Federico Santa Mar{\'{\i}}a} and {University of 
                         Cambridge} and {University of Southampton} and {Villanova 
                         University} and {University of Washington} and {University of 
                         Alabama} and University of California, Santa Barbara and {British 
                         Astronomical Association} and {American Association of Variable 
                         Star Observers} and {Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte} and 
                         {Villanova University} and {American Association of Variable Star 
                         Observers} and {University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill} and 
                         {Space Telescope Science Institut} and {CBA Kleinkaroo} and 
                         {American Association of Variable Star Observers} and {American 
                         Association of Variable Star Observers} and {Kyoto University} and 
                         {Hankasalmi Observatory} and {British Astronomical Association} 
                         and {British Astronomical Association} and {University of North 
                         Carolina at Chapel Hill} and {American Association of Variable 
                         Star Observers} and {British Astronomical Association} and 
                         {American Association of Variable Star Observers} and {Universidad 
                         T{\'e}cnica Federico Santa Mar{\'{\i}}a}",
                title = "Constraining the evolution of cataclysmic variables via the masses 
                         and accretion rates of their underlying white dwarfs",
              journal = "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society",
                 year = "2022",
               volume = "510",
               number = "4",
                pages = "6110--6132",
                month = "Feb.",
             keywords = "stars: white dwarfs, cataclysmic variables, evolution, fundamental 
                         parameters.",
             abstract = "We report on the masses (M-WD), effective temperatures (T-eff), 
                         and secular mean accretion rates (< M >) of 43 cataclysmic 
                         variable (CV) white dwarfs, 42 of which were obtained from the 
                         combined analysis of their Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet data 
                         with the parallaxes provided by the Early Third Data Release of 
                         the Gaia space mission, and one from the white dwarf gravitational 
                         redshift. Our results double the number of CV white dwarfs with an 
                         accurate mass measurement, bringing the total census to 89 
                         systems. From the study of the mass distribution, we derive < M-WD 
                         > = 0.81(-0.20)(+0.16) M-circle dot, in perfect agreement with 
                         previous results, and find no evidence of any evolution of the 
                         mass with orbital period. Moreover, we identify five systems with 
                         M-WD < 0.5 M-circle dot, which are most likely representative of 
                         helium-core white dwarfs, showing that these CVs are present in 
                         the overall population. We reveal the presence of an 
                         anticorrelation between the average accretion rates and the white 
                         dwarf masses for the systems below the 2-3 h period gap. Since 
                         <(M) over dot > reflects the rate of system angular momentum loss, 
                         this correlation suggests the presence of an additional mechanism 
                         of angular momentum loss that is more efficient at low white dwarf 
                         masses. This is the fundamental concept of the recently proposed 
                         empirical prescription of consequential angular momentum loss 
                         (eCAML) and our results provide observational support for it, 
                         although we also highlight how its current recipe needs to be 
                         refined to better reproduce the observed scatter in T-eff and <(M) 
                         over dot >, and the presence of helium-core white dwarfs.",
                  doi = "10.1093/mnras/stab3449",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3449",
                 issn = "0035-8711 and 1365-2966",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "Pala_2022_constraining.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "25 jun. 2024"
}