Finding binaries from phase modulation of pulsating stars with Kepler: V. Orbital parameters, with eccentricity and mass-ratio distributions of 341 new binaries

Abstract

The orbital parameters of binaries at intermediate periods ($10^2$--$10^3$ d) are difficult to measure with conventional methods and are very incomplete. We have undertaken a new survey, applying our pulsation timing method to {\it Kepler} light curves of 2224 main-sequence A/F stars and found 341 non-eclipsing binaries. We calculate the orbital parameters for 317 PB1 systems (single-pulsator binaries) and 24 PB2s (double-pulsators). The method reaches down to small mass ratios $q=0.02$ and yields a highly homogeneous sample. We parametrize the mass-ratio distribution using both inversion and MCMC forward-modelling techniques, and find it to be skewed towards low-mass companions, peaking at $q=0.2$. While solar-type primaries show a brown dwarf desert across intermediate periods, we find a small but significant (2.6$\sigma$) population of extreme-mass-ratio companions ($q<0.1$) to our intermediate-mass primaries. Across periods of 100--1500 d and at $q>0.1$, we measure the binary fraction of current A/F primaries to be 15.4%$\pm$1.4%, though we find that a large fraction of the companions (21%$\pm$6%) are white dwarfs in post-mass-transfer systems with primaries that are now blue stragglers, some of which are the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae, barium stars, symbiotics, and related phenomena. Excluding these white dwarfs, we find the binary fraction of original A/F primaries to be 13.9%$\pm$2.1% over the same parameter space. Combining literature measurements with ours, we find the binary fraction across these periods is a constant 5% for primaries $M_1<0.8$ M${}_{\odot }$, but then increases linearly with $\log M_1$, demonstrating that natal discs around more massive protostars $M_1>1$ M${}_{\odot }$ become increasingly more prone to fragmentation. Finally, we find the eccentricity distribution of the main-sequence pairs to be much less eccentric than the thermal distribution.

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