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NATURE
卷 468, 期 7323, 页码 542-544出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nature09598
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- Chilean Center for Astrophysics FONDAP
- BASAL Centro de Astrofisica y Tecnologias Afines (CATA)
- NSF
- Polish Ministry of Science
- Foundation for Polish Science (FOCUS, TEAM)
- GEMINI-CONICYT
- European Research Council
Stellar pulsation theory provides a means of determining the masses of pulsating classical Cepheid supergiants-it is the pulsation that causes their luminosity to vary. Such pulsational masses are found to be smaller than the masses derived from stellar evolution theory: this is the Cepheid mass discrepancy problem(1,2), for which a solution is missing(3-5). An independent, accurate dynamical mass determination for a classical Cepheid variable star (as opposed to type-II Cepheids, low-mass stars with a very different evolutionary history) in a binary system is needed in order to determine which is correct. The accuracy of previous efforts to establish a dynamical Cepheid mass from Galactic single-lined non-eclipsing binaries was typically about 15-30% (refs 6, 7), which is not good enough to resolve the mass discrepancy problem. In spite of many observational efforts(8,9), no firm detection of a classical Cepheid in an eclipsing double-lined binary has hitherto been reported. Here we report the discovery of a classical Cepheid in a well detached, double-lined eclipsing binary in the Large Magellanic Cloud. We determine the mass to a precision of 1% and show that it agrees with its pulsation mass, providing strong evidence that pulsation theory correctly and precisely predicts the masses of classical Cepheids.
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