Article Dans Une Revue The Astrophysical Journal Année : 2020

Hubble Space Telescope Snapshot Survey for Resolved Companions of Galactic Cepheids: Final Results

Nancy Remage Evans
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H. Moritz Günther
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Howard E. Bond
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Gail H. Schaefer
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Brian D. Mason
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Margarita Karovska
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Evan Tingle
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Scott Wolk
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Scott Engle
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Edward Guinan
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Ignazio Pillitteri
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Charles Proffitt
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Alexandre Gallenne
Richard I. Anderson
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Maxwell Moe
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Cepheids in multiple systems provide information on the outcome of the formation of massive stars. They can also lead to exotic end-stage objects. This study concludes our survey of 70 galactic Cepheids using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) with images at two wavelengths to identify companions closer than 5″. In the entire WFC3 survey we identify 16 probable companions for 13 Cepheids. The 7 Cepheids having resolved candidate companions within 2″ all have the surprising property of themselves being spectroscopic binaries (as compared with a 29% incidence of spectroscopic binaries in the general Cepheid population). This is a strong suggestion that an inner binary is linked to the scenario of a third companion within a few hundred astronomical units. This characteristic is continued for more widely separated companions. Under a model where the outer companion is formed first, it is unlikely that it can anticipate a subsequent inner binary. Rather, it is more likely that a triple system has undergone dynamical interaction, resulting in one star moving outward to its current location. Chandra and Gaia data as well as radial velocities and HST/STIS and IUE spectra are used to derive properties of the components of the Cepheid systems. The colors of the companion candidates show a change in distribution at approximately 2000 au separations, from a range including both hot and cool colors for closer companions, to only low-mass companions for wider separations. * Based on observations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NASA5-26555. Based on observations made with the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

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insu-03715006 , version 1 (06-08-2025)

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Nancy Remage Evans, H. Moritz Günther, Howard E. Bond, Gail H. Schaefer, Brian D. Mason, et al.. Hubble Space Telescope Snapshot Survey for Resolved Companions of Galactic Cepheids: Final Results. The Astrophysical Journal, 2020, 905, ⟨10.3847/1538-4357/abc1f1⟩. ⟨insu-03715006⟩
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