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Spectroscopic triples and a chance alignment. A solution for a problem of suspicious mass ratios for SB2s from Wilson method

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2023-10-16 v1

Abstract

We selected three double-lined spectroscopic binary systems which have extreme mass ratios, if measured using the Wilson method. We analysed medium resolution spectroscopic observations and space-based photometry and find that all these systems are not SB2, but rather triple systems and a chance alignment of another star with SB1 that have an unseen component. Therefore suspicious mass ratios determined by the Wilson method for some double-lined spectroscopic binary systems aren't correct as these systems are more complex.

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@article{arxiv.2310.09030,
  title  = {Spectroscopic triples and a chance alignment. A solution for a problem of suspicious mass ratios for SB2s from Wilson method},
  author = {Mikhail Kovalev and Xuefei Chen and Zhanwen Han},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.09030},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

10 pages, accepted in MNRAS