The Monitor project: tracking the evolution of low mass and pre-main sequence stars
Astrophysics
2007-11-07 v1
Abstract
The Monitor project is a large-scale program of photometric and spectroscopic monitoring of young open clusters using telescopes at ESO and other observatories. Its primary goal is to detect and characterise new low-mass eclipsing binaries, and the first three detected systems are discussed here. We derive the masses and radii of the components of each system directly from the light and radial velocity curves, and compare them to the predictions of commonly used theoretical evolutionary models of low-mass stars.
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@article{arxiv.0711.0945,
title = {The Monitor project: tracking the evolution of low mass and pre-main sequence stars},
author = {Suzanne Aigrain and Jonathan Irwin and Leslie Hebb and Simon Hodgkin and Adam Miller and Estelle Moraux and Keivan Stassun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.0945},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages + 4 figures, to appear in the December 207 issue of the ESO Messenger (volume 130). The version uploaded here is the final version before formatting