Spectroscopic binaries among Hipparcos M giants II. Binary frequency

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2009-01-08

arxiv.org/abs/0901.0937v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

12 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in A&A, language editing changes only

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This paper is the second one in a series devoted to the study of properties of binaries involving M giants. The binary frequency of field M giants is derived and compared with the binary fraction of K giants. Diagrams of the CORAVEL spectroscopic parameter Sb (measuring the average line-width) vs. radial-velocity standard deviation for our samples are used to define appropriate binarity criteria. These then serve to extract the binarity fraction among the M giants. Comparison is made to earlier data on K giants binarity frequency. The Sb parameter is discussed in relation to global stellar parameters and the Sb vs. stellar radius relation is used to identify fast rotators. We find that the spectroscopic binary detection rate among field M giants, in a sample with a low number of velocity measurements (~2), unbiased toward earlier known binaries, is 6.3%. This is less than half of the analogous rate for field K giants, likely resulting from a real difference. This difference originates in the greater difficulty of finding binaries among M giants because of their smaller orbital velocity amplitudes and larger intrinsic jitter and in the different distributions of K and M giants in the eccentricity-period diagram. A larger detection rate was obtained in a smaller M giant sample with more radial velocity measurements per object: 11.1% confirmed plus 2.7% possible binaries. The CORAVEL spectroscopic parameter Sb was found to correlate better with the stellar radius than with either luminosity or effective temperature separately. Two outliers of the Sb vs. stellar radius relation, HD 190658 and HD 219654, have been recognized as fast rotators. The rotation is companion-induced, as both objects turn out to be spectroscopic binaries.

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