Eclipsing binaries in the Magellanic Clouds. uvby CCD light curves and photometric analyses for HV982 (LMC), HV12578 (LMC), HV1433 (SMC), and HV11284 (SMC)

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2003-02-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302595v1

Astron.Astrophys.402:509-530,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

24 pages, 16 figures, 40 tables. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20030021

We present new accurate CCD uvby light curves for the LMC eclipsing binaries HV982 and HV12578, and for the SMC systems HV1433 and HV11284 obtained at the Danish 1.5m telescope at ESO, La Silla. The light curves were derived from DoPHOT photometry, and typical accuracies are between 0.007 and 0.012 mag per point. Standard uvby indices have also been established for each binary, primarily for determination of interstellar reddening and absorption. For HV982 and HV12578, accurate photometric elements have been established. Both systems consist of two detached components of comparable sizes in an eccentric orbit. Adopting the spectroscopic elements given by Fitzpatrick et al. 2002 for HV982, we derive absolute dimensions of its components which agree well with their results. A distance modulus of V_0-M_V = 18.63 +/- 0.08 is obtained, corresponding to a distance of 52.6 +/- 2.0 kpc, which is in formal agreement with (although slightly larger than) their determination. HV1433 and HV11284 both consist of two rather close, deformed and quite different stars. As the mass ratios between the components (and their rotation rates) are not known, definitive photometric elements can not yet be obtained, but we present a sample of possible photometric solutions. In a series of forthcoming papers we will combine our uvby observations with high-dispersion spectra from the UVES spectrograph on the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) and present absolute dimensions, chemical abundances and distances for selected LMC and SMC systems, including HV12578 and refined results for HV982.

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