Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Sep 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995a%26a...301..149m&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.301, p.149
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Stars: Binaries: Eclipsing, Stars: Individual: Af Gem, Stars: Fundamental Parameters
Scientific paper
We present a spectroscopic orbit for both components of the Algol-type eclipsing binary star AF Gem based on radial velocity measurements from 17 CCD spectra using the cross-correlation technique. We find: (a_1_+a_2_)sin i=8.03+/-0.11Rsun_, m_1_sin^3^i=3.36+/-0.11Msun_, m_2_sin^3^i=1.15+/-0.04Msun_, m_1_/m_2_=2.92+/-0.07. This is the first direct measurement of the mass ratio for this system. The radial velocity measurements for the cool component vary peculiarly and this is tentatively explained as a combination of chromospheric activity and non-synchronous rotation. We also present new solutions to the UBV light curves of Chambliss (1982) using our new spectroscopic orbit to fix the mass ratio and to derive absolute parameters for both components. These absolute parameters have been used to apply corrections for non-Keplerian effects to the spectroscopic orbit. The absolute parameters of the system are found to be: M_1_=3.37+/-0.11Msun_, M_2_=1.155+/-0.04Msun_, R _1_=2.61+/-0.06Rsun_, R _2_=2.32+/-0.04Rsun_, log(L_1_/Lsun_)= 1.78+/-0.09, log(L_2_/Lsun_)= 0.75+/-0.03. A comparison of AF Gem with the non-conservative case B evolution models of De Greve (1993) suggests that the system evolved from an initial mass ratio nearer to 0.6 than 0.9, and that perhaps more angular momentum has been lost than has been assumed in the models.
Hilditch Ron W.
Maxted Pierre F. L.
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