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2021AJ....161..285B - Astron. J., 161, 285-285 (2021/June-0)

Dissecting the quadruple binary hyad vA 351 masses for three M dwarfs and a white dwarf.

BENEDICT G.F., FRANZ O.G., HORCH E.P., PRATO L., TORRES G., McARTHUR B.E., WASSERMAN L.H., LATHAM D.W., STEFANIK R.P., LATHAM C. and SKIFF B.A.

Abstract (from CDS):

We extend results first announced by Franz et al., that identified vA 351 = H346 in the Hyades as a multiple star system containing a white dwarf. With Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor fringe tracking and scanning, and more recent speckle observations, all spanning 20.7 years, we establish a parallax, relative orbit, and mass fraction for two components, with a period, P=2.70yr and total mass 2.1 M. With ground-based radial velocities from the McDonald Observatory Otto Struve 2.1 m Telescope Sandiford Spectrograph, and Center for Astrophysics Digital Speedometers, spanning 37 years, we find that component B consists of BC, two M dwarf stars orbiting with a very short period (PBC=0.749 days), having a mass ratio MC/ MB = 0.95. We confirm that the total mass of the system can only be reconciled with the distance and component photometry by including a fainter, higher-mass component. The quadruple system consists of three M dwarfs (A, B, C) and one white dwarf (D). We determine individual M dwarf masses MA = 0.53 ± 0.10 M, MB = 0.43 ± 0.04 M, and MC = 0.41 ± 0.04 M. The white dwarf mass, 0.54 ± 0.04 M, comes from cooling models, an assumed Hyades age of 670 Myr, and consistency with all previous and derived astrometric, photometric, and radial velocity results. Velocities from Hα and He I emission lines confirm the BC period derived from absorption lines, with similar (He I) and higher (Hα) velocity amplitudes. We ascribe the larger Hα amplitude to emission from a region each component shadows from the other, depending on the line of sight.

Abstract Copyright: © 2021. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): Low mass stars

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