{"id":2905,"date":"2024-04-19T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2024-10-08T17:08:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T17:08:01","slug":"orbital-parameters-of-the-inner-binary-system-of-the-%ce%b4-cephei-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/orbital-parameters-of-the-inner-binary-system-of-the-%ce%b4-cephei-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital parameters of the inner binary system of the \u03b4 Cephei system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An inner companion has recently been discovered orbiting the prototype of classical Cepheids, \u03b4 Cep, whose orbital parameters are now reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-css-opacity has-background is-style-dots\" style=\"background-color:#275b12;color:#275b12\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The orbital parameters of the \u03b4 Cep inner binary system determined using 2019 HARPS-N spectroscopic data<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>N. Nardetto, V. Hocd\u00e9, P. Kervella, A. Gallenne, W. Gieren, D. Graczyk, A. Merand, M. Rainer, J. Storm, G. Pietrzy\u0144ski, B. Pilecki, E. Poretti, M. Bailleul, G. Bras, A. Afanasiev<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2024A%26A...684L...9N\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024, A&amp;A 684L, 9<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2024A%26A...685C...3N\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Corrigendum<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We collected new precise radial velocity (RV) measurements of \u03b4 Cep in 2019 using the HARPS-N spectrograph mounted at the 3.58-m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, La Palma, Spain. These RV measurements, compared with RV templates available in the literature, allowed us to derived the orbital parameters of the system: orbital period <em>P<\/em><sub>orb<\/sub> = 9.32 years, eccentricity <em>e<\/em> = 0.71, a semimajor axis <em>a<\/em> = 0.029 arcsec, and a center-of-mass velocity <em>V<\/em><sub>0<\/sub> = \u221217.28 km\/s, among other parameters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The resulting orbital parameters of the \u03b4 Cep inner binary system and a cleaned RV curve of the pulsation of the star will be used to study its Baade\u2013Wesselink projection factor in a future publication.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Nardetto2024_fig4-1024x330.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Nardetto2024_fig4-1024x330.png 1024w, https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Nardetto2024_fig4-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Nardetto2024_fig4-768x248.png 768w, https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Nardetto2024_fig4.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Projection of the a posteriori distribution for the estimated orbit (left panel) and the RV curve (right panel) for the SB1 system of \u03b4 Cep.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An inner companion has recently been discovered orbiting the prototype of classical Cepheids, \u03b4 Cep, whose orbital parameters are now reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13,11],"class_list":["post-2905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-highlights","tag-binary","tag-cepheid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2910,"href":"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions\/2910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}