WIYN Open Cluster Study. LXXVII. Radial-Velocity Measurements and Spectroscopic Binary Orbits in the Open Cluster NGC 7789
Abstract
We introduce the stellar sample of the WIYN Open Cluster Study radial-velocity survey for the rich open cluster NGC 7789 (1.6 Gyr, [Fe/H] = +0.02). This sample lies within an 18 circular radius from the cluster center (10 pc in projection, or about 2 core radii), and includes giants, red-clump stars, blue stragglers, red stragglers, sub-subgiants, and main-sequence stars down to one mag below the turnoff. Our survey began in 2005 and comprises more than 9,000 radial-velocity measurements from the Hydra Multi-Object Spectrograph on the WIYN 3.5m telescope. We identify 564 likely cluster members and present the orbital solutions for 83 cluster binary stars with periods between 1.45d and 4200d. From the main-sequence binary solutions we fit a circularization period of 8.22d. We calculate an incompleteness-corrected main-sequence binary frequency of 31% 3% for binaries with periods less than 10 days, similar to other WOCS open clusters of all ages. We detect a blue straggler binary frequency of 31% 15%, consistent with the similarly aged cluster NGC 6819.
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@article{arxiv.2003.09732,
title = {WIYN Open Cluster Study. LXXVII. Radial-Velocity Measurements and Spectroscopic Binary Orbits in the Open Cluster NGC 7789},
author = {Andrew C. Nine and Katelyn E. Milliman and Robert D. Mathieu and Aaron M. Geller and Emily M. Leiner and Imants Platais and Benjamin M. Tofflemire},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.09732},
year = {2020}
}
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47 pages, 16 figures. Submitted to AJ