HD 181068: A Red Giant in a Triply-Eclipsing Compact Hierarchical Triple System

Details HD 181068: A Red Giant in a Triply-Eclipsing Compact Hierarchical Triple System HD 181068: A Red Giant in a Triply-Eclipsing Compact Hierarchical Triple System

2012-02-10

arxiv.org/abs/1202.2196v1

Science, 2011, Vol. 332, page 216-218

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

22 pages, including supporting on-line material. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of

Scientific paper

10.1126/science.1201762

Hierarchical triple systems comprise a close binary and a more distant component. They are important for testing theories of star formation and of stellar evolution in the presence of nearby companions. We obtained 218 days of Kepler photometry of HD 181068 (magnitude of 7.1), supplemented by groundbased spectroscopy and interferometry, which show it to be a hierarchical triple with two types of mutual eclipses. The primary is a red giant that is in a 45-day orbit with a pair of red dwarfs in a close 0.9-day orbit. The red giant shows evidence for tidally-induced oscillations that are driven by the orbital motion of the close pair. HD 181068 is an ideal target for studies of dynamical evolution and testing tidal friction theories in hierarchical triple systems.

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