http://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00040
KOI-3890 is a highly eccentric, 153-day period eclipsing, single-lined spectroscopic binary system containing a red-giant star showing solar-like oscillations alongside tidal interactions. The combination of transit photometry, radial velocity observations, and asteroseismology have enabled the detailed characterisation of both the red-giant primary and the M-dwarf companion, along with the tidal interaction and the geometry of the system. The stellar parameters of the red-giant primary are determined through the use of asteroseismology and grid-based modelling to give a mass and radius of $M_{\star}=1.04\pm0.06\;\textrm{M}{\odot}$ and $R{\star}=5.8\pm0.2\;\textrm{R}{\odot}$ respectively. When combined with transit photometry the M-dwarf companion is found to have a mass and radius of $M{\mathrm{c}}=0.23\pm0.01\;\textrm{M}{\odot}$ and $R{\mathrm{c}}=0.256\pm0.007\;\textrm{R}{\odot}$. Moreover, through asteroseismology we constrain the age of the system through the red-giant primary to be $9.1^{+2.4}{-1.7}\;\mathrm{Gyr}$. This provides a constraint on the age of the M-dwarf secondary, which is difficult to do for other M-dwarf binary systems. In addition, the asteroseismic analysis yields an estimate of the inclination angle of the rotation axis of the red-giant star of $i=87.6^{+2.4}{-1.2}$ degrees. The obliquity of the system\textemdash the angle between the stellar rotation axis and the angle normal to the orbital plane\textemdash is also derived to give $\psi=4.2^{+2.1}{-4.2}$ degrees showing that the system is consistent with alignment. We observe no radius inflation in the M-dwarf companion when compared to current low-mass stellar models.
J. Kuszlewicz, T. North, W. Chaplin, et. al.
Thu, 2 May 19
21/45
Comments: 11 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
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