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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 101, 2015
The Space Photometry Revolution – CoRoT Symposium 3, Kepler KASC-7 Joint Meeting
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Article Number | 04002 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Session 4 - Multiple systems and star-planet interactions | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201510104002 | |
Published online | 23 September 2015 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201510104002
Finding non-eclipsing binaries through pulsational phase modulation
1 Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA), School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
2 Stellar Astrophysics Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
3 Department of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
4 Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE, UK
a e-mail: murphy@physics.usyd.edu.au
Published online: 23 September 2015
We present a method for finding binaries among pulsating stars that were observed by the Kepler Mission. We use entire four-year light curves to accurately measure the frequencies of the strongest pulsation modes, then track the pulsation phases at those frequencies in 10-d segments. This produces a series of time-delay measurements in which binarity is apparent as a periodic modulation whose amplitude gives the projected light travel time across the orbit. Fourier analysis of this time-delay curve provides the parameters of the orbit, including the period, eccentricity, angle of ascending node and time of periastron passage. Differentiating the time-delay curve yields the full radial-velocity curve directly from the Kepler photometry, without the need for spectroscopy. We show examples with delta Scuti stars having large numbers of pulsation modes, including one system in which both components of the binary are pulsating. The method is straightforward to automate, thus radial velocity curves can be derived for hundreds of non-eclipsing binary stars from Kepler photometry alone.
This contribution is based largely upon the work by Murphy et al. [1], describing the phase-modulation method in detail.
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