A pulsation analysis of K2 observations of the subdwarf B star PG1142-037 during Campaign 1: A subsynchronously rotating ellipsoidal variable

Abstract

We report a new subdwarf B (sdB) pulsator, PG1142-037, discovered during the first full-length campaign of K2, the two-gyro mission of the Kepler space telescope. Fourteen periodicities have been detected between 0.9 and 2.5 hours with amplitudes below 0.35 ppt. We have been able to associate all of the pulsations with low-degree, ell<=2 modes. Follow-up spectroscopy of PG1142 has revealed it to be in a binary with a period of 0.54 days. Phase-folding the K2 photometry reveals a two-component variation including both Doppler boosting and ellipsoidal deformation. Perhaps the most surprising and interesting result is the detection of an ellipsoidal, tidally distorted variable with no indication of rotationally-induced pulsation multiplets. This indicates that the rotation period is longer than 45 days, even though the binary period is near 13 hours.

arXiv comment11 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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