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Register a new userCharacterizing the variability of Melotte 111 AV 1224: a new variable star in the Coma Berenices open cluster
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Lester Fox Machado Dr
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2013
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A search for new pulsating stars in the Coma Berenices open cluster was carried out. As a result of this search the cluster member Melotte 111 AV 1224 presented clear indications of photometric variability. In order to determine its physical parameters Stromgren standard indices and low-resolution spectra were acquired. In this work we present the preliminary results of these observations.
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We report the results of CCD photometric observations in the direction of the Coma Berenices and Upgren 1 open clusters with the aim at searching for new short-period variable stars. A total of 35 stars were checked for variability. As a result of this search the star designated in the SIMBAD database as Melotte 111 AV 1224 was found to be a new eclipsing binary star. Follow-up Stromgren photometric and spectroscopic observations allowed us to derive the spectral type, distance, reddening and effective temperature of the star. A preliminary analysis of the binary light curve was performed and the parameters of the orbital system were derived. From the derived physical parameters we conclude that Melotte 111 AV 1224 is most likely a W UMa eclipsing binary that is not a member of the Coma Berenices open cluster. On other hand, we did not find evidence of brightness variations in the stars NSV 5612 and NSV 5615 previously catalogued as variable stars in Coma Berenices open cluster.
This paper presents a photometric and spectroscopic study of the short-period binary star Cl*~Melotte~111~AV~1224. Measurements in the $B$, $V$, and $R$ passbands obtained during three observing runs between 2014 and 2017 and medium-resolution spectra secured in 2014, are analyzed together with public data from the SuperWASP and LAMOST projects. Our light curves show marked asymmetry with a variable OConnell effect. The SuperWASP photometry is used to derive a mean binary period of 0.345225 days. The analysis of the $(O-C)$ diagram reveals that the orbital period is decreasing at a rate of $dP/dt = -3.87 times 10^{-6}$ days yr$^{-1}$, which may be caused by mass transfer from the more-massive component to the less-massive one. The system is found to be a single-lined spectroscopic binary with a systemic velocity, $gamma = 1 pm 3$ Km s$^{-1}$, and a semi-amplitude, K$_{1}$ = 21 $pm$ 5 Km s$^{-1}$. The spectral classification and the effective temperature of the primary component are estimated to be K0V $pm$ 1 and $5200 pm 150$ K, respectively. The photometric and spectroscopic solutions reveal that Cl*~Melotte~111~AV~1224 is a low-mass ratio ($q=m_{2}/m_{1} sim 0.11$), low-inclination ($sim ~ 38^{circ}$) near-contact system. The masses, radii and luminosity for the primary and secondary are estimated to be $1.02 pm 0.06, M_odot$, $1.23 pm 0.05, R_odot $, $1.01 pm 0.06, L_odot$ and $0.11 pm 0.08, M_odot$, $0.45 pm 0.05, R_odot$, $0.10 pm 0.06, L_odot$, respectively. The marginal contact, together with the period decrease, suggests that this binary system may be at a key evolutionary stage, as predicted by the theory of thermal relaxation oscillations.
We present the results of a survey of the Coma Berenices open star cluster (Melotte 111), undertaken using proper motions from the USNO-B1.0 and photometry from the 2MASS Point Source catalogues. We have identified 60 new candidate members with masses in the range 1.007<M<$0.269M_solar. For each we have estimated a membership probability by extracting control clusters from the proper motion vector diagram. All 60 are found to have greater than 60 per cent probability of being clusters more than doubling the number of known cluster members. The new luminosity function for the cluster peaks at bright magnitudes, but is rising at K~12, indicating that it is likely lower mass members may exist. The mass function also supports this hypothesis.
We report the identification, from a photometric, astrometric and spectroscopic study, of a massive white dwarf member of the nearby, approximately solar metalicity, Coma Berenices open star cluster (Melotte 111). We find the optical to near-IR energy distribution of WD1216+260 to be entirely consistent with that of an isolated DA and determine the effective temperature and surface gravity of this object to be $T_{rm eff}$=$15739^{+197}_{-196}$K and log $g$=$8.46^{+0.03}_{-0.02}$. We set tight limits on the mass of a putative cool companion, M$simgreat$0.036M$_{odot}$ (spatially unresolved) and M$simgreat$0.034M$_{odot}$, (spatially resolved and a$simless$2500AU). Based on the predictions of CO core, thick-H layer evolutionary models we determine the mass and cooling time of WD1216+260 to be M$_{rm WD}$=$0.90 pm0.04$M$_{odot}$ and $tau$$_{rm cool}$=$363^{+46}_{-41}$Myrs respectively. For an adopted cluster age of $tau$=500$pm$100Myrs we infer the mass of its progenitor star to be M$_{rm init}$=$4.77^{+5.37}_{-0.97}$M$_{odot}$. We briefly discuss this result in the context of the form of the stellar initial mass-final mass relation.
We present the results of a photometric survey of rotation rates in the Coma Berenices (Melotte 111) open cluster, using data obtained as part of the SuperWASP exoplanetary transit-search programme. The goal of the Coma survey was to measure precise rotation periods for main-sequence F, G and K dwarfs in this intermediate-age (~600 Myr) cluster, and to determine the extent to which magnetic braking has caused the stellar spin periods to converge. We find a tight, almost linear relationship between rotation period and J-K colour with a root-mean square scatter of only 2 percent. The relation is similar to that seen among F, G and K stars in the Hyades. Such strong convergence can only be explained if angular momentum is not at present being transferred from a reservoir in the deep stellar interiors to the surface layers. We conclude that the coupling timescale for angular momentum transport from a rapidly-spinning radiative core to the outer convective zone must be substantially shorter than the cluster age, and that from the age of Coma onward, stars rotate effectively as solid bodies. The existence of a tight relationship between stellar mass and rotation period at a given age supports the use of stellar rotation period as an age indicator in F, G and K stars of Hyades age and older. We demonstrate that individual stellar ages can be determined within the Coma population with an internal precision of order 9 percent (RMS), using a standard magnetic braking law in which rotation period increases with the square root of stellar age. We find that a slight modification to the magnetic-braking power law, P proportional to t^0.56, yields rotational and asteroseismological ages in good agreement for the Sun and other stars of solar age for which p-mode studies and photometric rotation periods have been published.
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