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A cataclysmic variable with a brown dwarf has been discovered

SRGeJ0411 is about 1056 light-years away and has an orbital period of 97.53 minutes. The white dwarf in the system has a radius of 0.01 of the Sun’s radius, and its mass is estimated to be 0.84 solar masses. The measured temperature of the white dwarf was 13,790 Kelvin.

The brown dwarf has a radius less than 0.11 solar radius, a mass less than 0.04 solar mass, and its temperature is estimated to be less than 1800 Kelvin.

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