Asteroseismology of Kepler Algol type oscillating eclipsing binaries

TL;DR

This study combines light curve modeling, spectroscopy, and asteroseismic analysis to characterize four Kepler-detected Algol-type eclipsing binaries with delta Scuti pulsators, expanding the understanding of such systems and their pulsation properties.

Contribution

It provides detailed pulsational and physical parameters for four new oscillating eclipsing binaries, enriching the limited sample of known systems and comparing observations with theoretical models.

Findings

All systems contain delta Scuti pulsators of the oEA type.

KIC 11175495 hosts the youngest and fastest pulsating star in such binaries.

Multiple pulsation frequencies, including over 200 combinations, were detected.

Abstract

Context. This research paper contains light curve modelling, spectroscopy and detailed asteroseismic studies for four out of five in total semidetached eclipsing binaries with a delta Scuti component, that have been detected to date through Kepler mission, namely KIC 06669809, KIC 10581918, KIC 10619109 and KIC 11175495. Aims. The goal is to study the pulsational characteristics of the oscillating stars of the systems as well as to estimate their absolute parameters and enrich the so far poor sample of this kind of systems. Methods. Ground based spectroscopic observations provide the means to estimate the spectral types of the primary components and to model the light curves with higher certainty. The photometric data are analysed using eclipsing binary modeling techniques, while Fourier analysis is applied on their residuals in order to reveal the pulsation frequency modes. Results. The results of analyses show that the primaries are pulsating stars of delta Scuti type and that all systems belong to the group of Algol type binaries with an oscillating star, namely oEA stars. The primaries of KIC 06669809, KIC 10581918, and KIC 10619109 pulsate in three, two, and five frequencies, respectively and in more than 200 other detected as combinations. The delta Scuti star of KIC 11175495 is the youngest and the fastest pulsator in binary systems that has ever been found and it oscillates in three main non radial frequencies, while other 153 are also found as depended ones. Moreover, a comparison of their properties with other systems of the same type as well as with theoretical models of pulsating stars are also presented and discussed.