The Properties and Evolutions of Starspots on Three Detached Eclipsing Binaries in the LAMOST-Kepler survey

TL;DR

This study investigates starspots on three detached eclipsing binaries using Kepler and LAMOST data, revealing differences in spot properties compared to single stars and exploring their evolution and surface differential rotation.

Contribution

It provides detailed analysis of starspot sizes, lifetimes, and rotation behaviors on binaries, and compares these properties with single star systems to understand starspot evolution.

Findings

Starspot sizes on binaries are generally smaller than on single stars.

Starspot lifetimes on binaries are similar to single stars for rotation periods over 3 days.

Half of the binaries show SDRs consistent with single star systems.

Abstract

The spotted detached eclipsing binary (DEB) offers insights into starspots on the binary. Three spotted DEBs, KIC 8097825, KIC 6859813, and KIC 5527172, which were observed by the Kepler photometry and LAMOST spectroscopy, are studied in this work. The physical parameters of binaries are determined by binary modeling. The sizes, lifetimes, and single/double-dip ratio (SDR) of starspots are derived by starspot analysis. KIC 8097825 has large starspots. KIC 6859813 has a spot rotation period shorter than its orbital period but the system should be synchronized inferred from timescale estimation. The difference may be the result of the surface differential rotation. The KIC 5527172 has a long spot lifetime and an M dwarf component with an inflation radius. The primaries of these binaries and the secondary of KIC 8097825 have spots. Adding spotted DEBs of literature, we compare the starspots on binaries with those on the single stars. The spot sizes of starspots on 65% binaries are smaller than the median of those on single stars. The lifetimes of starspots on binaries are consistent with those on single stars when the rotation periods are larger than 3 days. SDRs for half of the binaries are consistent with those of single star systems, while another half are smaller. The relative lifetime positively correlates with the RMS and SDR but negatively correlates with the rotation period. These relations are similar to those of spots on the single star systems. Binaries with luminosity ratios close to the unit tend to have more double dips.