Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-08-17
Astrophys.J.689:1244-1273,2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
emulateApJ, 47 pages, 28 figures, accepted to ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/592736
Using SDSS Data Release 6, we construct two independent samples of candidate stellar wide binaries selected as i) pairs of unresolved sources with angular separation in the range 3'' - 16'', ii) common proper motion pairs with 5'' - 30'' angular separation, and make them publicly available. These samples are dominated by disk stars, and we use them to constrain the shape of the main-sequence photometric parallax relation M_r(r-i) and to study the properties of wide binary systems. We estimate M_r(r-i) by searching for a relation that minimizes the difference between distance moduli of primary and secondary components of wide binary candidates. We model M_r(r-i) by a fourth degree polynomial and determine the coefficients using Markov Chain Monte Carlo fitting, independently for each sample. Aided by the derived photometric parallax relation, we construct a series of high-quality catalogs of candidate main-sequence binary stars. Using these catalogs, we study the distribution of semi-major axes of wide binaries, a, in the 2,000 < a < 47,000 AU range. We find the observations to be well described by the Opik distribution, f(a)~1/a, for a
Ivezic Zeljko
Juric Mario
Sesar Branimir
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