Eclipsing binary stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Results from the EROS-2, OGLE and VMC surveys

Abstract

We present a catalogue of 1768 eclipsing binary stars (EBs) detected in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by the second generation of the EROS survey (hereinafter EROS-2); 493 of them are new discoveries located in outer regions (out of the central bar) of the LMC. These sources were originally included in a list of candidate classical Cepheids (CCs) extracted from the EROS-2 catalogue on the basis of the period (0.89 $<P_{EROS}<$15.85 days) versus luminosity ($13.39<⟨B_{EROS}⟩<17.82$ mag) diagram. After visual inspection of the light curves we reclassified them as eclipsing binaries. They have blue colours ($B_{EROS}-R_{EROS}<$ 0.2 mag) hence we classed them as hot eclipsing binaries (HEBs) containing hot massive components: main sequence (MS) stars or blue giants. We present $K_{\mathrm{s}}$-band light curves for 999 binaries from our sample that have a counterpart in the VISTA near-infrared ESO public survey of the Magellanic Clouds system (VMC). We provide spectral classifications of 13 HEBs with existing spectroscopy. We divided our sample into contact-like binaries and detached/semi-detached systems based on both visual inspection and the parameters of the Fourier decomposition of the light curves and analysed the period-luminosity ($PL$) relations of the contact-like systems using the $R_{EROS}$ and $K_{\mathrm{s}}$ magnitudes at maximum light. The contact-like binaries in our sample do not follow $PL$ relations. We analysed the sample of contact binaries from the OGLE III catalogue and confirmed that $P{L}_I$ and $P{L}_{K_{\mathrm{s}}}$ sequences are defined only by eclipsing binaries containing a red giant component.

17 pages, 17 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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