50 Dra: Am-type twins with additional variability in a non-eclipsing system

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Autori principali: Skarka, M., Lipták, J., Niemczura, E., Mikulášek, Z., Cabezas, M., Vítková, M., Karjalainen, R., Kabáth, P.
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author Skarka, M.
Lipták, J.
Niemczura, E.
Mikulášek, Z.
Cabezas, M.
Vítková, M.
Karjalainen, R.
Kabáth, P.
author_facet Skarka, M.
Lipták, J.
Niemczura, E.
Mikulášek, Z.
Cabezas, M.
Vítková, M.
Karjalainen, R.
Kabáth, P.
contents The interplay between radiative diffusion, rotation, convection, and magnetism in metallic-line chemically peculiar stars is still not fully understood. Recently, evidence has emerged that these effects can work together. Our goal is to study the bright binary system 50 Dra, describe its orbit and components, and study additional variability. We conducted our analysis using TESS short-cadence data and new high-resolution spectroscopic observations. We disentangled the spectra using Korel and performed spectral synthesis with Atlas9 and Synthe codes. The system was modelled using Korel and Phoebe2.4. We also employed SED fitting in Ariadne and isochrone fitting using Param1.5 codes. Our findings indicate that the non-eclipsing system (with an inclination of 49.9(8) deg) 50 Dra, displaying ellipsoidal brightness variations, consists of two nearly equal A-type stars with masses of $M_{1}=2.08(8)$ and $M_{2}=1.97(8)$ M$_{\odot}$ and temperatures of 9800(100) and 9200(200) K, respectively. Our analysis also suggests that the system, with an orbital period of $P_{\rm orb}=4.117719(2)$ days, is tidally relaxed with a circular orbit and synchronous rotation of the components. Furthermore, we discovered that both stars are metallic-line Am chemically peculiar stars with an underabundance of Sc and an overabundance of iron-peak and rare-earth elements. We identified additional variations with slightly higher frequency than the rotational frequency of the components that we interpret as prograde g-mode pulsations. The system 50 Dra exhibits numerous exciting phenomena that co-exist together and may have an impact on our understanding of chemical peculiarity and pulsations.
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spellingShingle 50 Dra: Am-type twins with additional variability in a non-eclipsing system
Skarka, M.
Lipták, J.
Niemczura, E.
Mikulášek, Z.
Cabezas, M.
Vítková, M.
Karjalainen, R.
Kabáth, P.
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
The interplay between radiative diffusion, rotation, convection, and magnetism in metallic-line chemically peculiar stars is still not fully understood. Recently, evidence has emerged that these effects can work together. Our goal is to study the bright binary system 50 Dra, describe its orbit and components, and study additional variability. We conducted our analysis using TESS short-cadence data and new high-resolution spectroscopic observations. We disentangled the spectra using Korel and performed spectral synthesis with Atlas9 and Synthe codes. The system was modelled using Korel and Phoebe2.4. We also employed SED fitting in Ariadne and isochrone fitting using Param1.5 codes. Our findings indicate that the non-eclipsing system (with an inclination of 49.9(8) deg) 50 Dra, displaying ellipsoidal brightness variations, consists of two nearly equal A-type stars with masses of $M_{1}=2.08(8)$ and $M_{2}=1.97(8)$ M$_{\odot}$ and temperatures of 9800(100) and 9200(200) K, respectively. Our analysis also suggests that the system, with an orbital period of $P_{\rm orb}=4.117719(2)$ days, is tidally relaxed with a circular orbit and synchronous rotation of the components. Furthermore, we discovered that both stars are metallic-line Am chemically peculiar stars with an underabundance of Sc and an overabundance of iron-peak and rare-earth elements. We identified additional variations with slightly higher frequency than the rotational frequency of the components that we interpret as prograde g-mode pulsations. The system 50 Dra exhibits numerous exciting phenomena that co-exist together and may have an impact on our understanding of chemical peculiarity and pulsations.
title 50 Dra: Am-type twins with additional variability in a non-eclipsing system
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05854