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标题：The K2 M67 Study: A Curiously Young Star in an Eclipsing Binary in an Old Open Cluster
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作者：Eric L. Sandquist ; Robert D. Mathieu ; Samuel N. Quinn 等
期刊名称：The Astronomical journal
印刷版ISSN：0004-6256
电子版ISSN：1538-3881
出版年度：2018
卷号：155
期号：4
页码：1-18
DOI：10.3847/1538-3881/aab0ff
语种：English
出版社：American Institute of Physics
摘要：We present an analysis of a slightly eccentric (e =0.05), partially eclipsing, long-period (P= 69.73 days) mainsequence binary system (WOCS 12009, Sanders 1247) in the benchmark old open cluster M67. Using Kepler K2 and ground-based photometry, along with a large set of new and reanalyzed spectra, we derived highly precise masses (1.111±0.015 and 0.7480.005 Me) and radii (1.071±0.008±0.003 and 0.713±0.019±0.026 Re, with statistical and systematic error estimates) for the stars. The radius of the secondary star is in agreement with theory.The primary, however, is approximately 15% smaller than reasonable isochrones for the cluster predict. Our best explanation is that the primary star was produced from the merger of two stars, as this can also account for the nondetection of photospheric lithium and its higher temperature relative to other cluster main-sequence stars at the same V magnitude. To understand the dynamical characteristics (low measured rotational line broadening of the primary star and low eccentricity of the current binary orbit), we believe that the most probable (but not the only) explanation is the tidal evolution of a close binary within a primordial triple system (possibly after a period of Kozai– Lidov oscillations), leading to merger approximately 1 Gyr ago. This star appears to be a future blue straggler that is being revealed as the cluster ages and the most massive main-sequence stars die out.
关键词：binaries: eclipsing;binaries: spectroscopic;open clusters and associations: individual (M67);stars: distances;stars: low-mass