Identifying Hierarchically Triple Star Systems with Gaia DR3 and LAMOST
Abstract
Triple star systems are critical for understanding stellar dynamics and compact objects in astrophysics, yet confirmed hierarchical triples identified via spectroscopy remain limited. In this study, we identified 23 triple systems by cross-matching the Gaia DR3 non-single star catalog with LAMOST DR10 spectroscopic data; 18 of them are new discoveries. For two well-observed triples, we performed radial velocity curve fitting and light curve analysis to determine their orbital parameters, with inner and outer periods of 1.26 days and 656 days for one triple, and 3.42 days and 422 days for the other. We compared the results with other studies. We also analyzed the radial velocities (RVs) of these 23 triples, revealing a range of from approximately 40~km~s to 210~km~s. Due to spectral resolution and detection limitations, velocity differences below 45~km~s in binaries and below 90~km~s in the inner binaries of triple systems are challenging to detect. Consequently, our detection range for inner orbital periods is restricted to 0.2--20 days, with the highest efficiency for periods under 10 days. These findings underscore the advantage of spectroscopic observations for identifying triple systems with short inner orbital periods.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2412.02625,
title = {Identifying Hierarchically Triple Star Systems with Gaia DR3 and LAMOST},
author = {Tongyu He and Jiao Li and Jiangdan Li and Jianping Xiong and Xiaobin Zhang and Mikhail Kovalev and Qiyuan Cheng and Sufen Guo and Mingkuan Yang and Xuefei Chen and Zhanwen Han},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.02625},
year = {2024}
}