Detection of 2460 double-lined spectroscopic binary candidates in the LAMOST-MRS using projected rotational velocities and a binary spectral model

We present a new method for the detection of double-lined spectroscopic binaries (SB2s) using Vsin i values from spectral fits. The method is tested on synthetic and real spectra from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object fiber Spectroscopic Telescope Medium Resolution Survey. It can reliably detect SB2 candidates for double-lined binaries with V sin i(1) + V sin i(2) < 300 km s(-1) if the radial velocity separation is large enough. Using this method, we detected 2460 SB2 candidates, 1410 of which are new discoveries. We confirmed the correlation between the radial velocity separation estimated by the binary model and Vsin i(0) estimated by the single-star model using the selected sample. Additionally, our method found one new SB2 candidate in open cluster M11.

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In this study, a new method for detecting double-lined spectroscopic binaries is presented and tested. The method successfully identified a large number of SB2 candidates, including new discoveries.