2009ApJ...695L.163Q


Query : 2009ApJ...695L.163Q

2009ApJ...695L.163Q - Astrophys. J., 695, L163-L165 (2009/April-3)

Detection of a tertiary brown dwarf companion in the sdB-type eclipsing binary HS 0705+6700.

QIAN S.-B., ZHU L.-Y., ZOLA S., LIAO W.-P., LIU L., LI L.-J., WINIARSKI M., KULIGOWSKA E. and KREINER J.M.

Abstract (from CDS):

HS 0705+6700 is a short-period (P = 2.3 hr), close binary containing a hot sdB-type primary and a fully convective secondary. We have monitored this eclipsing binary for more than two years and as a result, 32 times of light minimum were obtained. Based on our new eclipse times together with these compiled from the literature, it is discovered that the observed-calculated curve of HS 0705+6700 shows a cyclic variation with a period of 7.15 years and a semiamplitude of 92.4 s. The periodic change was analyzed for the light-travel time effect that may be due to the presence of a tertiary companion. The mass of the third body is determined to be M3 sin i' = 0.0377(±0.0043) M when a total mass of 0.617 Mfor HS 0705+6700 is adopted. For orbital inclinations i' ≥ 32°.8, the mass of the tertiary component would be below the stable hydrogen-burning limit of M3∼ 0.072 M, and thus it would be a brown dwarf. The third body is orbiting the sdB-type binary at a distance shorter than 3.6 AU. HS 0705+6700 was formed through the evolution of a common envelope after the primary becomes a red giant. The detection of a substellar companion in HS 0705+6700 system at this distance from the binary could give some constraints on stellar evolution in such systems and the interactions between red giants and their companions.

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Journal keyword(s): binaries: close - binaries: eclipsing - stars: individual: HS 0705+6700 - stars: low-mass, brown dwarfs - subdwarfs

Simbad objects: 3

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Number of rows : 3
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2024
#notes
1 V* V470 Cam HS* 07 10 42.0513241680 +66 55 43.521505680           sdB+dM 111 1
2 BD-07 3477 HS* 12 44 20.2386233232 -08 40 16.846099536   10.46 10.594 10.895   sdB2VIIHe3 288 1
3 V* NN Ser CV* 15 52 56.1203524080 +12 54 44.429312196     16.51     DAO1+M4 274 0

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