RSGs in the LMC & sp. follow-up for LMC & SMC Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Neugent K.F.
  2. Levesque E.M.
  3. Massey P.
  4. Morrell N.I.
  5. Drout M.R.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The binary fraction of unevolved massive stars is thought to be 70%-100% but there are few observational constraints on the binary fraction of the evolved version of a subset of these stars, the red supergiants (RSGs). Here we identify a complete sample of RSGs in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using new spectroscopic observations and archival UV, IR, and broadband optical photometry. We find 4090 RSGs with logL/L_{sun}_>3.5, with 1820 of them having logL/L_{sun}_>4, which we believe is our completeness limit. We additionally spectroscopically confirmed 38 new RSG + B-star binaries in the LMC, bringing the total known up to 55. We then estimated the binary fraction using a k-nearest neighbors algorithm that classifies stars as single or binary based on photometry with a spectroscopic sample as a training set. We take into account observational biases such as line-of-sight stars and binaries in eclipse while also calculating model- dependent corrections for RSGs with companions that our observations were not designed to detect. Based on our data, we find an initial result of 13.5_-6.67_^+7.56^% for RSGs with O- or B-type companions. Using the Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis models to correct for unobserved systems, this corresponds to a total RSG binary fraction of 19.5_-6.7_^+7.6^% . This number is in broad agreement with what we would expect given an initial OB binary distribution of 70%, a predicted merger fraction of 20%-30%, and a binary interaction fraction of 40%-50%.

Keywords
  1. magellanic-clouds
  2. supergiant-stars
  3. multiple-stars
  4. b-stars
  5. stellar-spectral-types
  6. infrared-photometry
  7. visible-astronomy
  8. Wide-band photometry
  9. two-color-diagrams
  10. stellar-radii
  11. effective-temperature
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2020ApJ...900..118N
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.19000118

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2022-01-20T12:21:43Z
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2022-01-20T12:21:43Z
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