The Araucaria Project: accurate stellar parameters and distance to evolved eclipsing binary ASAS J180057-2333.8 in Sagittarius Arm

We have analyzed the double-lined eclipsing binary system ASAS J180057-2333.8 from the All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) catalogue. We measure absolute physical and orbital parameters for this system based on archival V-band and I-band ASAS photometry, as well as on high-resolution spectroscopic data obtained with ESO 3.6 m/HARPS and CORALIE spectrographs. The physical and orbital parameters of the system were derived with an accuracy of about 0.5-3 per cent. The system is a very rare configuration of two bright well-detached giants of spectral types K1 and K4 and luminosity class II. The radii of the stars are R-1 = 52.12 +/- 1.38 and R, = 67.63 +/- 1.40 R circle dot and their masses are M-1 = 4.914 +/- 0.021 and M-2 = 4.875 +/- 0.021 Me. The exquisite accuracy of 0.5 per cent obtained for the masses of the components is one of the best mass determinations for giants. We derived a precise distance to the system of 2.14 +/- 0.06 kpc (stat.) 0.05 (syst.) which places the star in the Sagittarius Carina arm. The Galactic rotational velocity of the star is circle dot(s), = 258 26 km s(-1) assuming circle dot(0) = 238 km s(-1). A comparison with PARSEC isochrones places the system at the early phase of core helium burning with an age of slightly larger than 100 million years. The effect of overshooting on stellar evolutionary tracks was explored using the MESA star code.