Volume-limited sample of low-mass red giant stars, the progenitors of hot subdwarf stars II. Sample validation
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| author | Benitez-Palacios, Diego Uzundag, Murat Vučković, Maja Arancibia-Rojas, Eduardo Durán-Reyes, Alex Vos, Joris Bobrick, Alexey Zorotovic, Mónica Jones, Matías I. |
| author_facet | Benitez-Palacios, Diego Uzundag, Murat Vučković, Maja Arancibia-Rojas, Eduardo Durán-Reyes, Alex Vos, Joris Bobrick, Alexey Zorotovic, Mónica Jones, Matías I. |
| contents | We investigate the progenitors of long-period hot subdwarf B (sdB) binaries, which form when low-mass red giant branch (RGB) stars lose their envelopes through stable Roche lobe overflow (RLOV) near the tip of the RGB. We aim to expand our previous volume-limited sample of 211 stars within 200 pc to 500 pc and validate it. Additionally, our goal is to provide the distribution of stellar parameters for these stars. We refined the original sample using Gaia DR3 parallaxes and interstellar extinction measurements. High-resolution spectra for 230 stars were obtained between 2019 and 2023 using the CORALIE spectrograph. To confirm or discard binarity, we combined astrometric parameters from Gaia with the resulting radial velocity variations. We derived the distribution of stellar parameters using atmospheric and evolutionary models, confirming that 82% of stars in our sample are indeed RGB stars using the equivalent evolutionary phase. The remaining 18% are red clump (RC) contaminants, which was expected due to the overlapping of RGB and RC stars in the colour-magnitude diagram. Additionally, 75% of the confirmed RGB stars have a high probability of being part of a binary system. Comparison with the literature shows good overall agreement with a scatter $\lesssim 15\%$ in stellar parameters, while the masses show somewhat higher dispersion ($\sim 20\%$). |
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| spellingShingle | Volume-limited sample of low-mass red giant stars, the progenitors of hot subdwarf stars II. Sample validation Benitez-Palacios, Diego Uzundag, Murat Vučković, Maja Arancibia-Rojas, Eduardo Durán-Reyes, Alex Vos, Joris Bobrick, Alexey Zorotovic, Mónica Jones, Matías I. Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies We investigate the progenitors of long-period hot subdwarf B (sdB) binaries, which form when low-mass red giant branch (RGB) stars lose their envelopes through stable Roche lobe overflow (RLOV) near the tip of the RGB. We aim to expand our previous volume-limited sample of 211 stars within 200 pc to 500 pc and validate it. Additionally, our goal is to provide the distribution of stellar parameters for these stars. We refined the original sample using Gaia DR3 parallaxes and interstellar extinction measurements. High-resolution spectra for 230 stars were obtained between 2019 and 2023 using the CORALIE spectrograph. To confirm or discard binarity, we combined astrometric parameters from Gaia with the resulting radial velocity variations. We derived the distribution of stellar parameters using atmospheric and evolutionary models, confirming that 82% of stars in our sample are indeed RGB stars using the equivalent evolutionary phase. The remaining 18% are red clump (RC) contaminants, which was expected due to the overlapping of RGB and RC stars in the colour-magnitude diagram. Additionally, 75% of the confirmed RGB stars have a high probability of being part of a binary system. Comparison with the literature shows good overall agreement with a scatter $\lesssim 15\%$ in stellar parameters, while the masses show somewhat higher dispersion ($\sim 20\%$). |
| title | Volume-limited sample of low-mass red giant stars, the progenitors of hot subdwarf stars II. Sample validation |
| topic | Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03398 |