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Eclipsing Binary Populations across the Northern Galactic Plane from the KISOGP survey

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2021-03-17 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We present a catalog of eclipsing binaries in the northern Galactic Plane from the Kiso Wide-Field Camera Intensive Survey of the Galactic Plane (KISOGP). We visually identified 7055 eclipsing binaries spread across \sim330 square degrees, including 4197 W Ursa Majoris/EW-, 1458 β\beta Lyrae/EB-, and 1400 Algol/EA-type eclipsing binaries. For all systems, II-band light curves were used to obtain accurate system parameters. We derived the distances and extinction values for the EW-type objects from their period--luminosity relation. We also obtained the structure of the thin disk from the distribution of our sample of eclipsing binary systems, combined with those of high-mass star-forming regions and Cepheid tracers. We found that the thin disk is inhomogeneous in number density as a function of Galactic longitude. Using this new set of distance tracers, we constrain the detailed structure of the thin disk. Finally, we report a global parallax zero-point offset of Δπ=42.1±1.9\mbox(stat.)±12.9\mbox(syst.) \Delta \pi=-42.1\pm1.9\mbox{(stat.)}\pm12.9\mbox{(syst.)} μ\muas between our carefully calibrated EW-type eclipsing binary positions and those provided by Gaia Early Data Release 3. Implementation of the officially recommended parallax zero-point correction results in a significantly reduced offset. Additionally, we provide a photometric characterization of our EW-type eclipsing binaries that can be applied to further analyses.

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@article{arxiv.2102.01924,
  title  = {Eclipsing Binary Populations across the Northern Galactic Plane from the KISOGP survey},
  author = {Fangzhou Ren and Richard de Grijs and Huawei Zhang and Licai Deng and Xiaodian Chen and Noriyuki Matsunaga and Chao Liu and Weijia Sun and Hiroyuki Maehara and Nobuharu Ukita and Naoto Kobayashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.01924},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

17 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in AJ