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Young Binaries as a Test for Pre-Main Sequence Evolutionary Tracks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2007

Hans Zinnecker
Hans Zinnecker*
Affiliation:
Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, An der Sternwarte 16, D-14482 Potsdam, Germany email: hzinnecker@aip.de
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Observations of young low-mass binaries (t ≲ 107 yr, M ≲ 3 M_⊙) can be used to calibrate pre-Main Sequence (pre-MS) evolutionary tracks. Recent high angular resolution HST/FGS, speckle, and long-baseline interferometry have resolved the astrometric orbits of a few SB2 pre-MS binaries and have provided the individual dynamical masses of their components as well as the system orbital parallaxes. Spectroscopic fits and filter photometry have permitted to determine SpT (temperatures) and a good estimate of the absolute magnitude (bolometric luminosity) of the components, which in turn allows one to place the components on a theoretical HR-diagram. In this way, one can check (a) whether the measured dynamical masses agree with the predicted masses on the tracks and (b) whether both components lie on an isochrone, as they should for a coeval physical pair of stars.

With a sufficiently large sample of different masses and ages of resolved SB2 systems, most of the parameter space of pre-MS tracks can be tested, even for very low stellar masses (M < 0.5 M_⊙) and very young ages (< 2 Myr). This is a prerequisite in order to derive the IMF and star formation history in very young clusters and associations.

Keywords

techniques: high angular resolutiontechniques: interferometrictechniques: spectroscopic telescopesastrometrybinaries: spectroscopicbinaries: visualstars: fundamental parametersHertzsprung-Russell diagramstars: late-typestars: pre–main-sequence
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Symposium S240: Binary Stars as Critical Tools & Tests in Contemporary Astrophysics , August 2006 , pp. 369 - 376
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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