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arxiv: 1508.04442 · v1 · pith:ZEZEYOFBnew · submitted 2015-08-18 · 🌌 astro-ph.SR

A Turnoff Detached Binary Star V568 Lyr in the Kepler Field of the Oldest Open Cluster (NGC 6791) in the Galaxy

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We present the Kepler photometric light-variation analysis of the late-type double-lined binary system V568 Lyr that is in the field of the high metallicity old open cluster NGC 6791. The radial velocity and the high-quality short-cadence light curve of the system are analysed simultaneously. The masses, radii and luminosities of the component stars are $M_1 = 1.0886\pm0.0031\, M{\odot}$, $M_2 = 0.8292 \pm 0.0026\, M{\odot}$, $R_1 = 1.4203\pm 0.0058\, R{\odot}$, $R_2 = 0.7997 \pm 0.0015\, R{\odot}$, $L_1 = 1.85\pm 0.15\, L{\odot}$, $L_2 = 0.292 \pm 0.018\, L{\odot}$ and their separation is $a = 31.060 \pm 0.002\, R{\odot}$. The distance to NGC 6791 is determined to be $4.260\pm 0.290\,$kpc by analysis of this binary system. We fit the components of this well-detached binary system with evolution models made with the Cambridge STARS and TWIN codes to test low-mass binary star evolution. We find a good fit with a metallicity of $Z = 0.04$ and an age of $7.704\,$Gyr. The standard tidal dissipation, included in TWIN is insufficient to arrive at the observed circular orbit unless it formed rather circular to begin with.

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