Revised Stellar Parameters for V471 Tau, A Post-common Envelope Binary in the Hyades

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作者
Muirhead, Philip S. [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ]
Nordhaus, Jason [5 ,6 ]
Drout, Maria R. [7 ]
机构
[1] Boston Univ, Inst Astrophys Res, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[2] Boston Univ, Dept Astron, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[3] Northwestern Univ, Ctr Interdisciplinary Explorat & Res Astrophys CI, 1800 Sherman Ave, Evanston, IL 60201 USA
[4] Northwestern Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, 1800 Sherman Ave, Evanston, IL 60201 USA
[5] Rochester Inst Technol, Natl Tech Inst Deaf, Rochester, NY 14623 USA
[6] Rochester Inst Technol, Ctr Computat Relat & Gravitat, Rochester, NY 14623 USA
[7] Univ Toronto, Dunlap Inst Astron & Astrophys, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada
来源
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL | 2022年 / 163卷 / 01期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
WHITE-DWARF; ECLIPSING BINARY; BROWN-DWARF; MASS; SPECTROSCOPY; STAR; EVOLUTION;
D O I
10.3847/1538-3881/ac390f
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
V471 Tau is a post-common-envelope binary consisting of an eclipsing DA white dwarf and a K-type main-sequence star in the Hyades star cluster. We analyzed publicly available photometry and spectroscopy of V471 Tau to revise the stellar and orbital parameters of the system. We used archival K2 photometry, archival Hubble Space Telescope spectroscopy, and published radial-velocity measurements of the K-type star. Employing Gaussian processes to fit for rotational modulation of the system flux by the main-sequence star, we recovered the transits of the white dwarf in front of the main-sequence star for the first time. The transits are shallower than would be expected from purely geometric occultations owing to gravitational microlensing during transit, which places an additional constraint on the white-dwarf mass. Our revised mass and radius for the main-sequence star is consistent with single-star evolutionary models given the age and metallicity of the Hyades. However, as noted previously in the literature, the white dwarf is too massive and too hot to be the result of single-star evolution given the age of the Hyades, and may be the product of a merger scenario. We independently estimate the conditions of the system at the time of common envelope that would result in the measured orbital parameters today.
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