The Interferometric Binary Epsilon Cancri in Praesepe: Precise Masses and Age

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: The Interferometric Binary Epsilon Cancri in Praesepe: Precise Masses and Age
المؤلفون: Morales, Leslie M., Sandquist, Eric L., Schaefer, Gail H., Farrington, Christopher D., Klement, Robert, Bedin, Luigi R., Libralato, Mattia, Malavolta, Luca, Nardiello, Domenico, Orosz, Jerome A., Monnier, John D., Kraus, Stefan, Bouquin, Jean-Baptiste Le, Anugu, Narsireddy, Brummelaar, Theo Ten, Davies, Claire L., Ennis, Jacob, Gardner, Tyler, Lanthermann, Cyprien
سنة النشر: 2022
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
الوصف: We observe the brightest member of the Praesepe cluster, Epsilon Cancri, to precisely measure the characteristics of the stars in this binary system, en route to a new measurement of the cluster's age. We present spectroscopic radial velocity measurements and interferometric observations of the sky-projected orbit to derive the masses, which we find to be M_1/M_sun = 2.420 +/- 0.008 and M_2/M_sun = 2.226 +/- 0.004. We place limits on the color-magnitude positions of the stars by using spectroscopic and interferometric luminosity ratios while trying to reproduce the spectral energy distribution of Epsilon Cancri. We re-examine the cluster membership of stars at the bright end of the color-magnitude diagram using Gaia data and literature radial velocity information. The binary star data are consistent with an age of 637 +/- 19 Myr, as determined from MIST model isochrones. The masses and luminosities of the stars appear to select models with the most commonly used amount of convective core overshooting.
Comment: 46 pages, 15 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac7329
الوصول الحر: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10690Test
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2205.10690
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv