Full spectroscopic orbital solutions for more than 100 massive binaries in the high-mass starburst region 30 Doradus

• Grant number: 13/18245-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Effective date (Start): February 01, 2014
• Effective date (End): January 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy - Stellar Astrophysics
• Principal Investigator: Augusto Damineli Neto
• Grantee: Leonardo Andrade de Almeida
• Supervisor: Hugues Sana
• Host Institution: Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Research place: Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 12/09716-6 - Accurate distances to young clusters through massive eclipsing binaries, BP.PD

Abstract

A key ingredient missing from current formation and evolution theories of massive stars, and of cluster evolution, is a robust binary fraction and the intrinsic distributions of orbital parameters. The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey (VFTS), which targeted 800 O- and B- stars in 30 Dor, was designed to detect most massive binaries with periods <200 d: the observed O-type binary fraction is 35% (126 binaries). Using a radial velocity monitoring, we will now characterise the orbits of these systems, with the aim of obtaining the first measurements of the period, mass-ratio and eccentricity distributions of massive binaries in a dense and dynamically complex environment, in which conditions are closer to those in super-star-clusters observed beyond the Local Group. We will also constrain the orbital properties of the 18 identified B-supergiant binaries, including an interacting and a post-interaction system. These systems represent key benchmark cases for models of close binary evolution. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

HOWARTH, I. D.; DUFTON, P. L.; DUNSTALL, P. R.; EVANS, C. J.; ALMEIDA, L. A.; BONANOS, A. Z.; CLARK, J. S.; LANGER, N.; SANA, H.; SIMON-DIAZ, S.; et al. The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey XXIII. Two massive double-lined binaries in 30 Doradus. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 582, OCT 2015. (12/09716-6, 13/18245-0)

ALMEIDA, L. A.; SANA, H.; TAYLOR, W.; BARBA, R.; BONANOS, A. Z.; CROWTHER, P.; DAMINELI, A.; DE KOTER, A.; DE MINK, S. E.; EVANS, C. J.; et al. The Tarantula Massive Binary Monitoring I. Observational campaign and OB-type spectroscopic binaries. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 598, FEB 2017. (12/09716-6, 13/18245-0)

MOYANO, M.; ALMEIDA, L. A.; VON ESSEN, C.; JABLONSKI, F.; PEREIRA, M. G.. Multi-band characterization of the hot Jupiters: WASP-5b, WASP-44b and WASP-46b. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 471, n. 1, p. 650-657, OCT 2017. (12/09716-6, 13/18245-0)

HOWARTH, I. D.; DUFTON, P. L.; DUNSTALL, P. R.; EVANS, C. J.; ALMEIDA, L. A.; BONANOS, A. Z.; CLARK, J. S.; LANGER, N.; SANA, H.; SIMON-DIAZ, S.; et al. The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey XXIII. Two massive double-lined binaries in 30 Doradus. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, v. 582, p. 19-pg., 2015-10-01. (13/18245-0, 12/09716-6)

ABDUL-MASIH, MICHAEL; SANA, HUGUES; SUNDQVIST, JON; MAHY, LAURENT; MENON, ATHIRA; ALMEIDA, LEONARDO A.; DE KOTER, ALEX; DE MINK, SELMA E.; JUSTHAM, STEPHEN; LANGER, NORBERT; et al. Clues on the Origin and Evolution of Massive Contact Binaries: Atmosphere Analysis of VFTS 352. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, v. 880, n. 2, AUG 1 2019. (12/09716-6, 11/51680-6, 13/18245-0)

MOLINO, A.; COSTA-DUARTE, V, M.; SAMPEDRO, L.; HERPICH, F. R.; SODRE JR, L.; MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, C.; SCHOENELL, W.; BARBOSA, C. E.; QUEIROZ, C.; LIMA, E. V. R.; et al. Assessing the photometric redshift precision of the S-PLUS survey: the Stripe-82 as a test-case. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 499, n. 3, p. 3884-3908, DEC 2020. (14/18632-6, 16/21664-2, 13/18245-0, 17/50277-0, 11/51680-6, 09/54202-8, 16/17119-9, 19/11910-4, 12/09716-6, 14/07684-5)

SILVA, K. M. G.; RODRIGUES, C. V.; OLIVEIRA, A. S.; ALMEIDA, L. A.; CIESLINSKI, D.; COSTA, J. E. R.; JABLONSKI, F. J.. MLS110213:022733+130617: a new eclipsing polar above the period gap. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 451, n. 4, p. 4183-4192, AUG 21 2015. (12/09716-6, 13/26258-4, 13/18245-0)

ALMEIDA, L. A.; SANA, H.; TAYLOR, W.; BARBA, R.; BONANOS, A. Z.; CROWTHER, P.; DAMINELI, A.; DE KOTER, A.; DE MINK, S. E.; EVANS, C. J.; et al. The Tarantula Massive Binary Monitoring I. Observational campaign and OB-type spectroscopic binaries. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, v. 598, p. 36-pg., 2017-02-01. (13/18245-0, 12/09716-6)

ALMEIDA, L. A.; SANA, H.; DE MINK, S. E.; TRAMPER, F.; SOSZYNSKI, I.; LANGER, N.; BARBA, R. H.; CANTIELLO, M.; DAMINELI, A.; DE KOTER, A.; et al. DISCOVERY OF THE MASSIVE OVERCONTACT BINARY VFTS 352: EVIDENCE FOR ENHANCED INTERNAL MIXING. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, v. 812, n. 2, OCT 20 2015. (12/09716-6, 13/18245-0)

OLIVEIRA, A. S.; RODRIGUES, C. V.; CIESLINSKI, D.; JABLONSKI, F. J.; SILVA, K. M. G.; ALMEIDA, L. A.; RODRIGUEZ-ARDILA, A.; PALHARES, M. S.. Exploratory Spectroscopy of Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables Candidates and Other Variable Objects. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, v. 153, n. 4, APR 2017. (12/09716-6, 13/26258-4, 13/18245-0)

MAHY, L.; SANA, H.; ABDUL-MASIH, M.; ALMEIDA, L. A.; LANGER, N.; SHENAR, T.; DE KOTER, A.; DE MINK, S. E.; DE WIT, S.; GRIN, N. J.; et al. The Tarantula Massive Binary Monitoring III. Atmosphere analysis of double-lined spectroscopic systemsx22c6;. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 634, FEB 19 2020. (11/51680-6, 12/09716-6, 13/18245-0)

MAHY, L.; ALMEIDA, L. A.; SANA, H.; CLARK, J. S.; DE KOTER, A.; DE MINK, S. E.; EVANS, C. J.; GRIN, N. J.; LANGER, N.; MOFFAT, A. F. J.; et al. The Tarantula Massive Binary Monitoring IV. Double-lined photometric binaries. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 634, FEB 19 2020. (11/51680-6, 12/09716-6, 13/18245-0)

ALMEIDA, L. A.; DE ALMEIDA, L.; DAMINELI, A.; RODRIGUES, V, C.; CASTRO, M.; LOPES, C. E. FERREIRA; JABLONSKI, F.; DO NASCIMENTO JR, J-D; PEREIRA, M. G.. Orbital Period Variation of KIC 10544976: Applegate Mechanism versus Light Travel Time Effect. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, v. 157, n. 4, APR 2019. (12/09716-6, 13/26258-4, 13/18245-0, 11/51680-6)

DAMINELI, A.; FERNANDEZ-LAJUS, E.; ALMEIDA, L. A.; CORCORAN, M. F.; DAMINELI, D. S. C.; GULL, T. R.; HAMAGUCHI, K.; HILLIER, D. J.; JABLONSKI, F. J.; MADURA, T. I.; et al. Distinguishing circumstellar from stellar photometric variability in Eta Carinae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 484, n. 1, p. 1325-1346, MAR 2019. (12/09716-6, 13/18245-0, 11/51680-6)

ALMEIDA, L. A.; DAMINELI, A.; RODRIGUES, C. V.; PEREIRA, M. G.; JABLONSKI, F.. HS 2231+2441: an HW Vir system composed of a low-mass white dwarf and a brown dwarf. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 472, n. 3, p. 3093-3100, DEC 2017. (12/09716-6, 13/26258-4, 13/18245-0, 11/51680-6)

SHENAR, T.; RICHARDSON, N. D.; SABLOWSKI, D. P.; HAINICH, R.; SANA, H.; MOFFAT, A. F. J.; TODT, H.; HAMANN, W. -R.; OSKINOVA, L. M.; SANDER, A.; et al. The Tarantula Massive Binary Monitoring II. First SB2 orbital and spectroscopic analysis for the Wolf-Rayet binary R145. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 598, FEB 2017. (12/09716-6, 13/18245-0)

DAMINELI, A.; ALMEIDA, L. A.; BLUM, R. D.; DAMINELI, D. S. C.; NAVARETE, F.; RUBINHO, M. S.; TEODORO, M.. Extinction law in the range 0.4-4.8 mu m and the 8620 angstrom DIB towards the stellar cluster Westerlund 1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 463, n. 3, p. 2653-2666, DEC 2016. (13/11680-2, 12/09716-6, 13/18245-0, 11/51680-6)

ALMEIDA, L. A.; PEREIRA, E. S.; BORGES, G. M.; DAMINELI, A.; MICHTCHENKO, T. A.; VISWANATHAN, G. M.. Eclipse timing variation of GK Vir: evidence of a possible Jupiter-like planet in a circumbinary orbit. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 497, n. 3, p. 8-pg., 2020-09-01. (11/51680-6, 13/18245-0, 16/13750-6, 12/09716-6)