The radial velocities and physical parameters of ER Vul

Details The radial velocities and physical parameters of ER Vul The radial velocities and physical parameters of ER Vul

May 2003

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Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.402, p.745-754 (2003)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Stars: Individual: Er Vul, Binaries: Spectroscopic, Binaries: Eclipsing, Stars: Late-Type, Techniques: Radial Velocities

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ER Vul is an eclipsing binary consisting of two solar type stars in a very close orbit with a period of 0fd7 . Accordingly, the two stars rotate very fast, leading to a blending of many spectral features at all phases. Therefore, measuring the radial velocity curve without systematic errors is not trivial. Here, we use a two-dimensional cross-correlation method applied to 137 high quality spectra, collected over 3 years, in order to obtain the radial velocity curve and determine the orbital and some physical parameters of the system from it. Primarily, we improve the binary period to 0fd69809458 +/-0fd00000014 , and find that the two amplitudes are slightly smaller than those measured by others, while the mass ratio is still similar. While at least the primary almost fills its Roche lobe, the system is still detached, i.e. not yet a fully fledged W UMa-system. The behaviour of the Ca Ii IRT line at 8662 Å confirms that the secondary is the more active component, and that the chromospheric emission is not symmetrically distributed over the surfaces of either star.
Based on observations made with the SOFIN échelle spectrograph at the Nordic Optical Telescope, operated on the island of La Palma jointly by Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto Astrofisica de Canarias; and the coudé spectrograph at the 2 m-RCC-telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory at Rozhen, Bulgaria.
Full Table \ref{T-RV} is only available in electronic form at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/qcat?J/A+A/402/745

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