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WIRE SATELLITE PHOTOMETRY OF ECLIPSING BINARY STARS

WIRE SATELLITE PHOTOMETRY OF ECLIPSING BINARY STARS. John Southworth H Bruntt D L Buzasi. The WIRE satellite. Launched in 1999 for an IR galaxy survey electronics problem caused loss of coolant. The WIRE satellite. Launched in 1999 for an IR galaxy survey

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WIRE SATELLITE PHOTOMETRY OF ECLIPSING BINARY STARS

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  1. WIRE SATELLITE PHOTOMETRY OF ECLIPSING BINARY STARS John Southworth H Bruntt D L Buzasi

  2. The WIRE satellite • Launched in 1999 for an IR galaxy survey • electronics problem caused loss of coolant

  3. The WIRE satellite • Launched in 1999 for an IR galaxy survey • electronics problem caused loss of coolant • Star tracker used since 1999 as a high-speed photometer • aperture: 5 cm • cadence: 2 Hz • 5 targets at once

  4. Eclipsing binaries with WIRE: ψ Centauri • V = 4.0 spectral type = B9 V + A2 V • Previously known to be a spectroscopic binary • WIRE light curve: 41 000 points with 2 mmag scatter

  5. Eclipsing binaries with WIRE: ψ Centauri • Orbital period = 38.8 days Total eclipses • Light curve fitted with JKTEBOP: fractional radii to 0.1% • See Bruntt et al., 2006, A&A, 456, 651

  6. Eclipsing binaries with WIRE: β Aurigae • V = 1.9 Orbital period = 3.960 days • Spectral type = A1m + A1m • Eclipses discovered in 1911 • WIRE light curve: 30 000 points with 0.3 mmag scatter

  7. Eclipsing binaries with WIRE: β Aurigae • JKTEBOP fit (nonlinear LD): (r1+r2) to 0.1% r1 and r2 to 5 % • Add in spectroscopic light ratio: r1 and r2 to 0.5%

  8. Eclipsing binaries with WIRE: β Aurigae • M1 = 2.376 ± 0.027 M R1 = 2.762± 0.017 R • M2 = 2.291± 0.027 M R2 = 2.568± 0.017 R • Southworth et al., 2007, A&A, in press (astro-ph/0703634)

  9. Eclipsing binaries with WIRE: AR Cas • Period = 6.07 days B4 V + A6 V V = 4.9 • Light curve contains 2 mmag variation at primary star rotation period and several pulsation frequencies

  10. Eclipsing binaries with WIRE: δCap • V = 2.9 Orbital period = 1.02 days • Spectral type = Am + F • X-ray source: coronal activity?

  11. Eclipsing binaries with WIRE: δCap • Primary component is variable, perhaps a δ Scuti star

  12. WIRE satellite photometry of eclipsing binary stars John Southworth Hans Bruntt Derek L Buzasi

  13. John Southworth University of Warwick j.k.taylor@warwick.ac.uk http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/~jkt

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