Testing Stellar Models With An Improved Physical Orbit for 12 Bootis

Details Testing Stellar Models With An Improved Physical Orbit for 12 Bootis Testing Stellar Models With An Improved Physical Orbit for 12 Bootis

2005-02-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0502250v2

Astrophys.J. 627 (2005) 464-476

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

34 pages, 10 figures; accepted by Astrophysical Journal; Data tables to appear in ApJ on-line version; corrected typo in abstr

Scientific paper

10.1086/430058

We report on a significantly improved determination of the physical orbit of the double-lined spectroscopic binary system 12 Boo. We have a 12 Boo interferometry dataset spanning six years with the Palomar Testbed Interferometer, a smaller amount of data from the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer, and a radial velocity dataset spanning 14 years from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. We have updated the 12 Boo physical orbit model with our expanded interferometric and radial velocity datasets. The revised orbit is in good agreement with previous results, and the physical parameters implied by a combined fit to our visibility and radial velocity data result in precise component masses and luminosities. In particular, the orbital parallax of the system is determined to be 27.74 $\pm$ 0.15 mas, and masses of the two components are determined to be 1.4160 $\pm$ 0.0049 M$_{\sun}$ and 1.3740 $\pm$ 0.0045 M$_{\sun}$, respectively. Based on theoretical models we can estimate a system age of approximately 3.2 Gyr. Comparisons with stellar models suggest that the 12 Boo primary may be just entering the Hertzsprung gap, but that conclusion is highly dependent on details of the models. Such a dynamic evolutionary state makes the 12 Boo system a unique and important test for stellar models.

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