Jadhav, VV and Roy, K and Joshi, N and Subramaniam, A (2021) High Mass-Ratio Binary Population in Open Clusters: Segregation of Early Type Binaries and an Increasing Binary Fraction with Mass. In: Astronomical Journal, 162 (6).
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Abstract
Binary stars play a vital role in astrophysical research, as a good fraction of stars are in binaries. Binary fraction (BF) is known to change with stellar mass in the Galactic field, but such studies in clusters require binary identification and membership information. Here, we estimate the total and spectral-type high-mass-ratio (HMR) BF (f 0.6) in 23 open clusters using unresolved binaries in color-magnitude diagrams using Gaia DR2 data. We introduce the segregation index (S I ) parameter to trace mass segregation of HMR (total and mass) binaries and the reference population. This study finds that in open clusters, (1) HMR BF for the mass range 0.4-3.6 M o� (early M to late B-type stars) has a range of 0.12-0.38 with a peak at 0.12-0.20; (2) older clusters have a relatively higher HMR BF; (3) the mass-ratio distribution is unlikely to be a flat distribution and BF (total) �(1.5-2.5) f 0.6; (4) a decreasing BF (total) from late B to K-type stars, in agreement with the Galactic field stars; (5) older clusters show radial segregation of HMR binaries; (6) B-type and A-F type HMR binaries show radial segregation in some young clusters suggesting a primordial origin. This study will constrain the initial conditions and identify the major mechanisms that regulate binary formation in clusters. Primordial segregation of HMR binaries could result from massive clumps spatially segregated in the collapse phase of the molecular cloud. © 2021. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved..
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Astronomical Journal |
| Publisher: | American Astronomical Society |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to the Author. |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jan 2022 11:37 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2022 11:37 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/70819 |
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