Can Binary Population Synthesis Models Be Tested With Hot Subdwarfs ?

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Dec 2007

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #104.22; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.928

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Models of binary star interactions have been successful in explaining the origin of field hot subdwarf (sdB) stars in short period systems. The hydrogen envelopes around these core He-burning stars are removed in a "common envelope" evolutionary phase. Reasonably clean samples of short-period sdB+WD or sdB+dM systems exist, that allow the common envelope ejection efficiency to be estimated for wider use in binary population synthesis (BPS) codes. About one-third of known sdB stars, however, are found in longer-period systems with a cool G or K star companion. These systems may have formed through Roche-lobe overflow (RLOF) mass transfer from the present sdB to its companion. They have received less attention, because the existing catalogues are believed to have severe selection biases against these systems, and because their long, slow orbits are difficult to measure. Are these known sdB+cool systems worth intense observational effort? That is, can they be used to make a valid and useful test of the RLOF process in BPS codes? We use the Binary Stellar Evolution (BSE) code of Hurley et al. (2002), mapping sets of initial binaries into present-day binaries that include sdBs, and distinguishing "observable" sdBs from "hidden" ones. We aim to find out whether (1) the existing catalogues of sdBs are sufficiently fair samples of the kinds of sdB binaries that theory predicts, to allow testing or refinement of RLOF models; or instead whether (2) large predicted hidden populations mandate the construction of new catalogues, perhaps using wide-field imaging surveys such as 2MASS, SDSS, and Galex.
This work has been partially supported by NASA grant NNG05GE11G and NSF grants PHY 03-26281, PHY 06-00953 and PHY 06-53462. This work is also supported by the Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, which is supported by the National Science Foundation under cooperative agreement PHY 01-14375.

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