期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 501, 期 3, 页码 3847-3870出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3661
关键词
stars: abundances; stars: atmospheres; stars: fundamental parameters; stars: horizontal branch; stars: low-mass; subdwarfs
资金
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [HE 1356/70-1, IR190/1-1]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG [GE 2506/91]
- STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council) [ST/R003726/1]
- National Research Foundation of South Africa
- University of the Western Cape
- STFC
- [087.D-0185(A)]
- [098.C-0754(A)]
- [082.D-0649(A)]
- [084.D-0348(A)]
- [098.D-679]
- STFC [ST/R000964/1, PP/E001777/1, ST/H008500/1, ST/P00721X/1, ST/R003726/1, ST/G003092/1, ST/F012276/1, ST/K002783/1, ST/T000406/1, ST/S006567/1, PP/D002370/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Subdwarf B stars are core-helium-burning stars located on the extreme horizontal branch (EHB), formed through extensive mass loss on the red giant branch. The system J08205+0008 with a hot subdwarf and substellar companion was analyzed in-depth using high-quality data and various methods, leading to precise constraints on the characteristics of both stars. The hot subdwarf was found to have a mass of 0.39-0.50 Solar masses, while the companion is likely a massive brown dwarf with a mass of 0.061-0.071 Solar masses.
Subdwarf B stars are core-helium-burning stars located on the extreme horizontal branch (EHB). Extensive mass loss on the red giant branch is necessary to form them. It has been proposed that substellar companions could lead to the required mass loss when they are engulfed in the envelope of the red giant star. J08205+0008 was the first example of a hot subdwarf star with a close, substellar companion candidate to be found. Here, we perform an in-depth re-analysis of this important system with much higher quality data allowing additional analysis methods. From the higher resolution spectra obtained with ESO-VLT/XSHOOTER, we derive the chemical abundances of the hot subdwarf as well as its rotational velocity. Using the Gaia parallax and a fit to the spectral energy distribution in the secondary eclipse, tight constraints to the radius of the hot subdwarf are derived. From a long-term photometric campaign, we detected a significant period decrease of -3.2(8) x 10(-12) dd(-1). This can be explained by the non-synchronized hot subdwarf star being spun up by tidal interactions forcing it to become synchronized. From the rate of period decrease we could derive the synchronization time-scale to be 4 Myr, much smaller than the lifetime on EHB. By combining all different methods, we could constrain the hot subdwarf to a mass of 0.39-0.50 M-circle dot and a radius of R-sdB = 0.194 +/- 0.008 R-circle dot, and the companion to 0.061-0.071 M-circle dot with a radius of R-comp = 0.092 +/- 0.005 R-circle dot, below the hydrogen-burning limit. We therefore confirm that the companion is most likely a massive brown dwarf.
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