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Southworth, J, Murphy, SJ and Pavlovski, K (2023) δ Scuti pulsations in the bright Pleiades eclipsing binary HD 23642. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 520 (1). L53-L57. ISSN 1745-3925
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Abstract
We announce the discovery of pulsations in HD 23642, the only bright eclipsing system in the Pleiades, based on light curves from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). We measure 46 pulsation frequencies and attribute them to δ Scuti pulsations in the secondary component. We find four ℓ = 1 doublets, three of which have frequency splittings consistent with the rotation rate of the star. The dipole mode amplitude ratios are consistent with a high stellar inclination angle and the stellar rotation period agrees with the orbital period. Together, these suggest that the spin axis of the secondary is aligned with the orbital axis. We also determine precise effective temperatures and a spectroscopic light ratio, and use the latter to determine the physical properties of the system alongside the TESS data and published radial velocities. We measure a distance to the system in agreement with the Gaia parallax, and an age of 170 ± 20 Myr based on a comparison to theoretical stellar evolutionary models.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model) |
Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QB Astronomy > QB460 Astrophysics Q Science > QC Physics |
Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 10 Feb 2023 10:59 |
Last Modified: | 10 Feb 2023 10:59 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/11914 |