WIYN Open Cluster Study. XLVIII. The Hard-Binary Population of NGC 188

Abstract

(abridged) We present an in-depth study of the hard-binary population of the old (7 Gyr) open cluster NGC 188. The main-sequence solar-type hard binaries in NGC 188 are nearly indistinguishable from similar binaries in the Galactic field. We find a global solar-type main-sequence hard-binary frequency in NGC 188 of 29 +/- 3 % for binaries with periods less than 10^4 days. For main-sequence hard binaries in the cluster we observe a log-period distribution that rises towards our detection limit, a roughly Gaussian eccentricity distribution centered on e = 0.35 (for binaries with periods longer than the circularization period), and a secondary-mass distribution that rises towards lower-mass companions. Importantly, the NGC 188 blue straggler binaries show significantly different characteristics than the solar-type main sequence binaries in NGC 188. We observe a blue straggler hard-binary frequency of 76 +/- 19 %, three times that of the main sequence. The blue straggler binary eccentricity - log period distribution is distinct from that of the main sequence at the 99% confidence level, with the majority of the blue straggler binaries having periods of order 1000 days and lower eccentricities. The secondary-mass distribution for these long-period blue straggler binaries is narrow and peaked with a mean value of about 0.5 Msun. Predictions for mass-transfer products are most closely consistent with the binary properties of these NGC 188 blue stragglers, which comprise two-thirds of the blue straggler population. Additionally we compare the NGC 188 binaries to those evolved within the sophisticated Hurley et al. (2005) N-body open cluster simulation. We find that additional simulations with initial conditions that are better motivated by observations are necessary to properly investigate the dynamical evolution of a rich binary population in open clusters like NGC 188.

23 pages, 22 figures, accepted for publication in AJ

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