Dynamical evolution of active detached binaries on log Jo - log M diagram and contact binary formation

Details Dynamical evolution of active detached binaries on log Jo - log M diagram and contact binary formation Dynamical evolution of active detached binaries on log Jo - log M diagram and contact binary formation

2006-09-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0609395v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.373:1483-1494,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

28 pages, including 6 figures and 2 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11073.x

Orbital angular momentum (Jo), systemic mass (M) and orbital period (P) distributions of chromospherically active binaries (CAB) and W Ursae Majoris (W UMa) systems were investigated. The diagrams of log Jo - log P, log M - log P and log Jo-log M were formed from 119 CAB and 102 W UMa stars. The log Jo-log M diagram is found to be most meaningful in demonstrating dynamical evolution of binary star orbits. A slightly curved borderline (contact border) separating the detached and the contact systems was discovered on the log Jo - log M diagram. Since orbital size (a) and period (P) of binaries are determined by their current Jo, M and mass ratio q, the rates of orbital angular momentum loss (dlog Jo/dt) and mass loss (dlog M/dt) are primary parameters to determine the direction and the speed of the dynamical evolution. A detached system becomes a contact system if its own dynamical evolution enables it to pass the contact border on the log Jo - log M diagram. Evolution of q for a mass loosing detached system is unknown unless mass loss rate for each component is known. Assuming q is constant in the first approximation and using the mean decreasing rates of Jo and M from the kinematical ages of CAB stars, it has been predicted that 11, 23 and 39 cent of current CAB stars would transform to W UMa systems if their nuclear evolution permits them to live 2, 4 and 6 Gyrs respectively.

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