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Surface brightness-colour relations of dwarf stars from detached eclipsing binaries I. Calibrating sample

Graczyk, D.; Pietrzynski, G.; Galan, C.; Southworth, John; Gieren, W.; Kaluszynski, M.; Zgirski, B.; Gallenne, A.; Gorski, M.; Hajdu, G.; Karczmarek, P.; Kervella, P.; Maxted, Pierre; Nardetto, N.; Narloch, W.; Pilecki, B.; Pych, W.; Garcia, G. Rojas; Storm, J.; Suchomska, K.; Taormina, M.; Wielgorski, P.

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Authors

D. Graczyk

G. Pietrzynski

C. Galan

W. Gieren

M. Kaluszynski

B. Zgirski

A. Gallenne

M. Gorski

G. Hajdu

P. Karczmarek

P. Kervella

N. Nardetto

W. Narloch

B. Pilecki

W. Pych

G. Rojas Garcia

J. Storm

K. Suchomska

M. Taormina

P. Wielgorski



Abstract

Aims. Surface brightness – colour relations (SBCRs) are very useful tools for predicting the angular diameters of stars. They offer the possibility to calculate very precise spectrophotometric distances by the eclipsing binary method or the Baade-Wesselink method. Double-lined Detached Eclipsing Binary stars (SB2 DEBs) with precisely known trigonometric parallaxes allow for a calibration of SBCRs with unprecedented precision. In order to improve such calibrations, it is important to enlarge the calibration sample of suitable eclipsing binaries with very precisely determined physical parameters.

Methods. We carefully chose a sample of ten SB2 DEBs in the solar neighbourhood which contain inactive main-sequence components. The components have spectral types from early A to early K. All systems have high-precision parallaxes from the Gaia mission. We analysed high precision ground- and space-based photometry simultaneously with the radial velocity curves derived from HARPS spectra. We used spectral disentangling to obtain the individual spectra of the components and used these to derive precise atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances. For almost all components, we derived precise surface temperatures and metallicities.

Results. We derived absolute dimensions for 20 stars with an average precision of 0.2% and 0.5% for masses and radii, respectively. Three systems show slow apsidal motion. One system, HD 32129, is most likely a triple system with a much fainter K6V companion. Also three systems contain metallic-line components and show strong enhancements of barium and ittrium.

Conclusions. The components of all systems compare well to the SBCR derived before from the detached eclipsing binary stars. With a possible exception of HD 32129, they can be used to calibrate SBCRs with a precision better than 1% with available Gaia DR3 parallaxes.

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Aug 5, 2022
Online Publication Date Oct 14, 2022
Publication Date 2022-10
Journal Astronomy and Astrophysics
Print ISSN 0004-6361
Electronic ISSN 1432-0746
Publisher EDP Sciences
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 666
Article Number ARTN A128
Pages 1-17
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202244122
Keywords binaries: spectroscopic / binaries: eclipsing / stars: fundamental parameters / stars: distances
Publisher URL https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/10/aa44122-22/aa44122-22.html

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