CN Andromedae: A Broken-Contact Binary?

Details CN Andromedae: A Broken-Contact Binary? CN Andromedae: A Broken-Contact Binary?

Dec 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001aj....122.3436v&link_type=abstract

The Astronomical Journal, Volume 122, Issue 6, pp. 3436-3446.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Stars: Binaries: Close, Stars: Binaries: Eclipsing, Stars: Binaries: Spectroscopic, Stars: Variables: General

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We solve new UBV light curves of the eclipsing binary CN Andromedae simultaneously with radial velocities by the method of differential corrections. We find it semidetached with the more massive star filling its limiting lobe and the less massive star very close to lobe-filling. Our solutions of earlier light curves have the same configuration. Within the uncertainties, the system may be in a broken or a marginal contact stage as it undergoes thermal relaxation oscillations. The light curves are strongly affected by a large dark spot at high latitude on the more massive star and by a bright substellar spot on the companion. Spot locations and temperatures do not differ significantly from epoch to epoch. Based on single star evolutionary models, the primary's mass (1.299+/-0.045 Msolar) and radius (1.425+/-0.016 Rsolar) are consistent with those of a star of age 2.9×109 yr that will leave the main sequence in another 2.0×109 yr. The orbital period has decreased during the past 50 yr according to traditional eclipse timings and also according to our generalized light and velocity solutions that include a reference epoch T0 and a rate of period change dP/dt. We find dP/dt=-0.01951+/-0.00054 s yr-1, which is consistent with mass transfer from the more to the less massive star of 1.4×10-7 Msolar yr-1, assuming no mass is lost from the system. Reliable absolute dimensions are determined.

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