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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
卷 429, 期 2, 页码 645-655出版社
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20041867
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stars : distances; stars : fundamental parameters; stars : binaries : eclipsing; stars : chemically peculiar; Galaxy : open clusters and associations : general; stars : binaries : spectroscopic
We present a reanalysis of the light curves of HD23642, a detached eclipsing binary star in the Pleiades open cluster, with emphasis on a detailed error analysis. We compare the masses and radii of the two stars to predictions of stellar evolutionary models and find that the metal and helium abundances of the Pleiades are approximately solar. We present a new method for finding distances to eclipsing binaries, of spectral types A to M, using the empirical calibrations of effective temperature versus surface brightness given by Kervella et al. (2004, A&A, 426, 297). We use the calibration for K-filter surface brightness to determine a distance of 139.1 +/- 3.5 pc to HD23642 and the Pleiades. This distance is in excellent agreement with distances found from the use of theoretical and empirical bolometric corrections. We show that the determination of distance, both from the use of surface brightness relations and from the use of bolometric corrections, is more accurate and precise at infrared wavelengths than at optical wavelengths. The distance to HD23642 is consistent with that derived from photometric methods and Hubble Space Telescope parallaxes, but is inconsistent with the distance measured using Hipparcos parallaxes of HD23642 and of other Pleiades stars.
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