What a Local Sample of Spectroscopic Binaries can tell us about the Field-Binary Population

Details What a Local Sample of Spectroscopic Binaries can tell us about the Field-Binary Population What a Local Sample of Spectroscopic Binaries can tell us about the Field-Binary Population

2005-08-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0508651v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 361 (2005) 495-503

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables. Published in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09193.x

We study a sample of spectroscopic binaries (SBs) in the local solar neighbourhood to 100 pc and to an absolute magnitude of 4 in an attempt to find the distributions of the period, primary mass and the mass ratio as well as the IMF of the local population of field binaries. The sample was collated using available SB data and the Hipparcos catalogue, the latter being used for distances and to refer numbers of objects to fractions of the local stellar population as a whole. We use the better-determined double-lined SBs (SB2s) to calibrate a Monte-Carlo approach to modelling the mass ratio distribution of the single-lined SBs (SB1s) from their mass functions and primary masses. While a complete sample is not possible, given the data available, we are able to address important questions of incompleteness and parameter-specific biases by comparing subsamples of SBs with different ranges in parameter space. Our results show a clear peak in the mass ratio distribution of field binaries near unity. This is dominated by the SB2s, but the flat distribution of the SB1s is inconsistent with their components being chosen independently at random from a steep IMF.

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