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Double-lined spectroscopic binaries in the APOGEE DR16 and DR17 data

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2021-10-20 v1

Abstract

APOGEE spectra offer \lesssim1 km s1^{-1} precision in the measurement of stellar radial velocities (RVs). This holds even when multiple stars are captured in the same spectrum, as happens most commonly with double-lined spectroscopic binaries (SB2s), although random line of sight alignments of unrelated stars can also occur. We develop a code that autonomously identifies SB2s and higher order multiples in the APOGEE spectra, resulting in 7273 candidate SB2s, 813 SB3s, and 19 SB4s. We estimate the mass ratios of binaries, and for a subset of these systems with sufficient number of measurements we perform a complete orbital fit, confirming that most systems with period <<10 days have circularized. Overall, we find a SB2 fraction (FSB2F_{SB2}) \sim3\% among main sequence dwarfs, and that there is not a significant trend in FSB2F_{SB2} with temperature of a star. We are also able to recover a higher FSB2F_{SB2} in sources with lower metallicity, however there are some observational biases. We also examine light curves from TESS to determine which of these spectroscopic binaries are also eclipsing. Such systems, particularly those that are also pre- and post-main sequence, are good candidates for a follow-up analysis to determine their masses and temperatures.

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@article{arxiv.2107.10860,
  title  = {Double-lined spectroscopic binaries in the APOGEE DR16 and DR17 data},
  author = {Marina Kounkel and Kevin R. Covey and Keivan G. Stassun and Adrian M. Price-Whelan and Jon Holtzman and Drew Chojnowski and Penélope Longa-Peña and Carlos G. Román-Zúñiga and Jesus Hernandez and Javier Serna and Carles Badenes and Nathan De Lee and Steven Majewski and Guy S. Stringfellow and Kaitlin M. Kratter and Maxwell Moe and Peter M. Frinchaboy and Rachael L. Beaton and José G. Fernández-Trincado and Suvrath Mahadevan and Dante Minniti and Timothy C. Beers and Donald P. Schneider and Rodolfo H. Barbá and Joel R. Brownstein and Domingo Aníbal García-Hernández and Kaike Pan and Dmitry Bizyaev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.10860},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Accepted to AJ. 23 pages, 17 figures

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