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Binaries in the Hyades

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Robert P. Stefanik
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
David W. Latham
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Abstract

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Orbital solutions are now available for 46 binaries which are members of the Hyades. The distribution of eccentricity versus period shows evidence for tidal circularization of the short-period binaries. However, the transition from circular to eccentric orbits is not clean. The first eccentric orbit has a period of 5.75 days, while the last circular orbit has a period of 8.50 days. For longer periods the distribution of eccentricity is the same as for solar-type stars in the field.

Type
Spectroscopic Studies
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1992

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