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Pulsation and Rotation of the EL CVn-type Eclipsing Binary 1SWASP J024743.37-251549.2

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2021-11-03 v1

Abstract

EL CVn-type eclipsing binaries are composed of a massive A-type main-sequence primary star and a hotter B-type secondary star. This paper presents the time-series photometric and asteroseismic results of the EL CVn-type star 1SWASP J024743.37-251549.2. Well-defined eclipsing light curves were constructed by using the novel high-cadence BVBV data and archival {\it TESS} data, and the physical parameters of each binary component were derived by modeling the light curves. Multiple frequency analysis was performed to investigate the pulsation properties of the binary components. A reliable signal could not be detected in the high-frequency region of 100--300 day1^{-1}, unlike in the previous discovery of three frequencies around 200 day1^{-1}. This indicates that the pulsation amplitudes of the pre-helium white dwarf secondary component decreased considerably. By contrast, 12 frequencies were detected in the range of 33 to 53 day1^{-1}. Most of them were classified as δ\delta Sct-type pulsations originating from the primary star. Theoretical frequencies for the seismic analysis were obtained by adding the non-rotating model frequencies from the GYRE and their rotational shifts from the complete calculation approach. Grid-based fitting was conducted for various stellar properties. The theoretical frequencies and stellar parameters of the best solution concurred well with the observations. The rotation rate was constrained to 1.50 ±\pm 0.02 day1^{-1}, indicating the synchronized rotation of the primary star. The results imply that the complete approach based on the polytropic model is applicable to the seismic analysis of fast-rotating δ\delta Sct stars.

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@article{arxiv.2109.02262,
  title  = {Pulsation and Rotation of the EL CVn-type Eclipsing Binary 1SWASP J024743.37-251549.2},
  author = {Seung-Lee Kim and Jae Woo Lee and Chung-Uk Lee and Yongseok Lee and Dong-Joo Lee and Kyeongsoo Hong and Sang-Mok Cha and Dong-Jin Kim and Byeong-Gon Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.02262},
  year   = {2021}
}

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15 pages, accepted for publication in AJ