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HD 174884: a strongly eccentric, short-period early-type binary system discovered by CoRoT
Maceroni, C.; Montalban Iglesias, Josefa; Michel, E. et al.
2009In Astronomy and Astrophysics, 508, p. 1375-1389
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Keywords :
binaries: close; binaries: eclipsing; stars: fundamental parameters; stars: individual: HD 174884; stars: variables: general
Abstract :
[en] Accurate photometric CoRoT space observations of a secondary seismological target, HD 174884, led to the discovery that this star is an astrophysically important double-lined eclipsing spectroscopic binary in an eccentric orbit (eË 0.3), unusual for its short 3.65705° orbital period. The high eccentricity, coupled with the orientation of the binary orbit in space, explains the very unusual observed light curve with strongly unequal primary and secondary eclipses having the depth ratio of 1-to-100 in the CoRoT â seismoâ passband. Without the high accuracy of the CoRoT photometry, the secondary eclipse, 1.5 mmag deep, would have gone unnoticed. A spectroscopic follow-up program provided 45 high dispersion spectra. The analysis of the CoRoT light curve was performed with an adapted version of PHOEBE that supports CoRoT passbands. The final solution was obtained by a simultaneous fitting of the light and the radial velocity curves. Individual star spectra were obtained by spectrum disentangling. The uncertainties of the fit were achieved by bootstrap resampling and the solution uniqueness was tested by heuristic scanning. The results provide a consistent picture of the system composed of two late B stars. The Fourier analysis of the light curve fit residuals yields two components, with orbital frequency multiples and an amplitude of ~0.1 mmag, which are tentatively interpreted as tidally induced pulsations. An extensive comparison with theoretical models is carried out by means of the Levenberg-Marquardt minimization technique, and the discrepancy between the models and the derived parameters is discussed. The best fitting models yield a young system age of 125 million years which is consistent with the eccentric orbit and synchronous component rotation at periastron. Based on photometry collected by the CoRoT space mission and spectroscopy obtained with the CORALIE spectrograph attached to the 1.2 m Euler telescope at ESO, La Silla, Chile. The CoRoT space mission was developed and is operated by the French space agency CNES, with participation of ESA's RSSD and Science Programs, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Germany and Spain. Postdoctoral fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders (FWO).
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Maceroni, C.;  INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, via Frascati 33, 00040 Monteporzio C. (RM), Italy
Montalban Iglesias, Josefa ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Astrophysique stellaire théorique et astérosismologie
Michel, E.
Harmanec, P.;  Astronomical Institute of the Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, V HoleÅ¡oviÄ kách 2, 180 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic
Prsa, A.;  Villanova University, Dept. Astron. Astrophys., 800 E Lancaster Ave., Villanova, PA 19085, USA ; University of Ljubljana, Dept. of Physics, Jadranska 19, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Briquet, Maryline ;  Instituut for Sterrenkunde, K.U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
Niemczura, E.;  Instituut for Sterrenkunde, K.U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium ; Astronomical Institute of WrocÅ aw University, ul. Kopernika 11, 51-622 WrocÅ aw, Poland
Morel, Thierry  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Groupe d'astrophysique des hautes énergies (GAPHE)
Ladjal, D.;  Instituut for Sterrenkunde, K.U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
Auvergne, M.;  Observatoire de Paris, LESIA, UMR 8109, 92195 Meudon, France
Baglin, A.;  Observatoire de Paris, LESIA, UMR 8109, 92195 Meudon, France
Baudin, F.;  Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Campus d'Orsay, 91405 Orsay, France
Catala, C.;  Observatoire de Paris, LESIA, UMR 8109, 92195 Meudon, France
Samadi, R.;  Observatoire de Paris, LESIA, UMR 8109, 92195 Meudon, France
Aerts, C.;  Instituut for Sterrenkunde, K.U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium ; Dept. of Astrophysics, IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, PO Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Language :
English
Title :
HD 174884: a strongly eccentric, short-period early-type binary system discovered by CoRoT
Publication date :
01 December 2009
Journal title :
Astronomy and Astrophysics
ISSN :
0004-6361
eISSN :
1432-0746
Publisher :
EDP Sciences, Les Ulis, France
Volume :
508
Pages :
1375-1389
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Commentary :
http://de.arxiv.org/abs/0910.3513
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