μ Eridani from MOST and from the ground: an orbit, the SPB components fundamental parameters and the SPB frequencies

ISSN： 0035-8711

Source： Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.432, Iss.2, 2013-06, pp. : 1032-1045

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Abstract

MOST time series photometry of Eri, an SB1 eclipsing binary with a rapidly rotating SPB primary, is reported and analysed. The analysis yields a number of sinusoidal terms, mainly due to the intrinsic variation of the primary, and the eclipse light curve. New radial-velocity observations are presented and used to compute parameters of a spectroscopic orbit. Frequency analysis of the radial-velocity residuals from the spectroscopic orbital solution fails to uncover periodic variations with amplitudes greater than 2kms¹. A RossiterMcLaughlin anomaly is detected from observations covering ingress.From archival photometric indices and the revised Hipparcos parallax, we derive the primarys effective temperature, surface gravity, bolometric correction and the luminosity. An analysis of a high signal-to-noise spectrogram yields the effective temperature and surface gravity in good agreement with the photometric values. From the same spectrogram, we determine the abundance of He, C, N, O, Ne, Mg, Al, Si, P, S, Cl and Fe.The eclipse light curve is solved by means of ebop. For a range of mass of the primary, a value of mean density, very nearly independent of assumed mass, is computed from the parameters of the system. Contrary to a recent report, this value is approximately equal to the mean density obtained from the stars effective temperature and luminosity.Despite limited frequency resolution of the MOST data, we were able to recover the closely spaced SPB frequency quadruplet discovered from the ground in 20022004. The other two SPB terms seen from the ground were also recovered. Moreover, our analysis of the MOST data adds 15 low-amplitude SPB terms with frequencies ranging from 0.109 to 2.786d¹.