Radial velocity measurements of Subdwarf B stars

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2011-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/1103.4745v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

MNRAS accepted. 22 pages with 10 tables and 4 figures. Revised to correct the object name of the helium-rich sdB mentioned in

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Subdwarf B (sdB) stars are hot, sub-luminous stars which are thought to be core-helium burning with thin hydrogen envelopes. The mechanism by which these stars lose their envelopes has been controversial but it has been argued that binary star interaction is the main cause. Over the past decade we have conducted a radial velocity study of a large sample of sdB stars, and have shown that a significant fraction of the field sdB population exists in binary systems. In 2002 and 2003 we published 23 new binary sdB stars and the definitions of their orbits. Here we present the continuation of this project. We give the binary parameters for 28 systems, 18 of which are new. We present also our radial velocity measurements of a further 108 sdBs. Of these, 88 show no significant evidence of orbital motion. The remaining 20 do show radial velocity variations, and so are good candidates for further study. Based on these results, our best estimate for the binary fraction in the sdB population is 46 - 56 per cent. This is a lower bound since the radial velocity variations of very long period systems would be difficult to detect over the baseline of our programme, and for some sources we have only a small number of measurements.

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