J/AJ/157/136    RVs of RGs with suspected massive companions    (Makarov+, 2019)

Observations of red giants with suspected massive companions. Makarov V.V., Tokovinin A. <Astron. J., 157, 136 (2019)> =2019AJ....157..136M 2019AJ....157..136M (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Binaries, spectroscopic ; Stars, giant ; Radial velocities Keywords: binaries: spectroscopic Abstract: Motivated by the existence of binary systems where a stellar-mass black hole is bound to a normal star, we selected four red giants with large radial velocity (RV) variation from the survey of Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) grid stars and monitored their RVs for several months. None turned out to contain a massive companion above 2.5 solar masses. The red giant TYC 9299-1080-1 with a large RV and a large proper motion is a single-lined spectroscopic binary with a period of 81 days. It is an extreme halo object moving at 350 km/s almost directly toward the Galactic center. HD 206092 is a double-lined binary with a short period of 4.37 days. It belongs to the rare class of active RS CVn-type binaries with evolved primary components, apparently undergoing mass transfer. The X-ray luminosity of HD 206092 is about twice as high as the most luminous coronal X-ray emitters observed by ROSAT, including II Peg and the prototype star RS CVn. HD 318347 has a variable double-peaked emission-line spectrum (not a giant), while HD 324668 has a constant RV. Despite the overall good quality of the SIM survey data confirmed by a comparison with Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2, Cat. I/345) mean RVs, the few large RV variations are explained, mostly, by erroneous data. We discuss the significance of the non-detection of massive companions in the SIM grid sample and the associated work. Description: The observations reported here were conducted at the 1.5 m telescope located at Cerro Tololo (Chile) and operated by the SMARTS consortium. Ten hours of observing time were allocated through the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO). Spectra were taken by the telescope operator in the service mode. The optical echelle spectrometer CHIRON (Tokovinin et al. 2013PASP..125.1336T 2013PASP..125.1336T) was used in the fiber mode with a spectral resolution of 30000. On each visit, a single five-minute exposure of the star was taken, accompanied by the spectrum of the comparison lamp for wavelength calibration. The RVs are derived from the reduced spectra by cross-correlation with a binary mask based on the solar spectrum, similarly to the CORALIE RVs. We used 39 echelle orders in the spectral range from 4500 to 6500 Å, which is relatively less contaminated by telluric lines. More details are provided by Tokovinin (2016, J/AJ/152/11). File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table1.dat 78 4 List of candidates table3.dat 36 43 Radial velocities -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: I/259 : The Tycho-2 Catalogue (Hog+ 2000) I/345 : Gaia DR2 (Gaia Collaboration, 2018) J/AJ/152/11 : Orbits of four triple stars (Tokovinin, 2016) Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 11 A11 --- TYC Tycho identifier (NNNN-NNNN-N) 13- 18 I6 --- HD [206092/324668]? HD number 20- 34 A15 --- Name Object identifier in Table 3 36- 40 F5.2 mag Vmag [9.71/10.02] Visual magnitude 42- 46 A5 --- SpType Spectral type as given in Simbad 48- 52 F5.3 mas Plx [0.729/2.592] Parallaxe (1) 54- 58 F5.3 mas e_Plx [0.025/0.052] Uncertainty in Plx (1) 60- 72 A13 --- Note Note 74- 78 F5.2 d Per [4.37/81]? Orbital period -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Parallaxes and errors are from the Gaia DR2 (Gaia Collaboration et al. 2018, Cat. I/345). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 15 A15 --- Name Object identifier 17- 26 F10.4 d JD [58260.847/58406.486] Julian Date (JD-2400000) 28- 34 F7.3 km/s RV [-85.55/335.944] Radial velocity 36 A1 --- m_Name [ab] Component label -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: From electronic version of the journal
(End) Prepared by [AAS], Tiphaine Pouvreau [CDS] 14-Jun-2019
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