IN-SYNC. VII. Evidence for a Decreasing Spectroscopic Binary Fraction (from 1 to 100 Myr) within the IN-SYNC Sample
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2017

© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We study the occurrence of spectroscopic binaries in young star-forming regions using the INfrared Spectroscopy of Young Nebulous Clusters (IN-SYNC) survey, carried out in SDSS-III with the APOGEE spectrograph. Multi-epoch observations of thousands of low-mass stars in Orion A, NGC 2264, NGC 1333, IC 348, and the Pleiades have been carried out, yielding H-band spectra with a nominal resolution of R = 22,500 for sources with H < 12 mag. Radial velocity precisions of ∼0.3 were achieved, which we use to identify radial velocity variations indicative of undetected companions. We use Monte Carlo simulations to assess the types of spectroscopic binaries to which we are sensitive, finding sensitivity to binaries with orbital periods ≲ 10 3.5 days, for stars with 2500 K ≤ T eff ≤ 6000 K and v sin i < 100 km s -1 . Using Bayesian inference, we find evidence for a decline in the spectroscopic binary fraction, by a factor of 3-4, from the age of our pre-main-sequence (PMS) sample to the Pleiades age . The significance of this decline is weakened if spot-induced radial-velocity jitter is strong in the sample, and is only marginally significant when comparing any one of the PMS clusters against the Pleiades. However, the same decline in both sense and magnitude is found for each of the five PMS clusters, and the decline reaches a statistical significance of greater than 95% confidence when considering the PMS clusters jointly. Our results suggest that dynamical processes disrupt the widest spectroscopic binaries (P orb ≈ 10 3 - 10 4 days) as clusters age, indicating that this occurs early in the stars' evolution, while they still reside within their nascent clusters.

binaries: spectroscopic

stars: pre-main sequence

stars: low-mass

Författare

K. Jaehnig

Fisk University

Vanderbilt University

J.C. Bird

Vanderbilt University

K.G. Stassun

Vanderbilt University

Fisk University

N.D. Rio

University of Florida

Jonathan Tan

University of Florida

M. Cotaar

University of Oxford

G. Somers

Vanderbilt University

Astrophysical Journal

0004-637X (ISSN) 1538-4357 (eISSN)

Vol. 851 1 14-31

Ämneskategorier

Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi

Fundament

Grundläggande vetenskaper

Infrastruktur

Onsala rymdobservatorium

DOI

10.3847/1538-4357/aa9924

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