Orbital separation amplification in fragile binaries with evolved components |
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Authors: | K.B. Johnston T.D. Oswalt |
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Affiliation: | a Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Florida Institute of Technology, 150 West University Blvd., Melbourne, FL 32901, United States b LERMA, CNRS UMR 8112, Observatoire de Paris, 61 Avenue de l’Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France |
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Abstract: | The secular stellar mass loss causes an amplification of the orbital separation in fragile, common proper motion, binary systems with separations of the order of 1000 A.U. In these systems, companions evolve as two independent coeval stars as they experience negligible mutual tidal interactions or mass transfer. We present models for how post-main sequence mass-loss statistically distorts the frequency distribution of separations in fragile binaries. These models demonstrate the expected increase in orbital separation resulting from stellar mass-loss, as well as a perturbation of associated orbital parameters. Comparisons between our models and observations resulting from the Luyten survey of wide visual binaries, specifically those containing MS and white-dwarf pairs, demonstrate a good agreement between the calculated and the observed angular separation distribution functions. |
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Keywords: | Binaries General-stars statistics-white dwarfs |
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