Orbital properties of binary post-AGB stars

Abstract

Binary post-asymptotic giant branch (post-AGB) stars are thought to be the products of a strong but poorly-understood interaction during the AGB phase. The aim of this contribution is to update the orbital elements of a sample of galactic post-AGB binaries observed in a long-term radial-velocity monitoring campaign. Radial velocities are computed from high signal-to-noise spectra by use of a cross-correlation method. The radial-velocity curves are fitted by using both a least-squares algorithm and a Nelder-Mead simplex algorithm. We use a Monte Carlo method to compute uncertainties on the orbital elements. The resulting mass functions are used to derive a companion mass distribution by optimising the predicted to the observed cumulative mass-function distributions, after correcting for observational bias. As a result, we derive and update orbital elements for 33 galactic post-AGB binaries, among which 3 are new orbits. The orbital periods of the systems range from 100 to about 3000 days. Over 70 percent (23 out of 33) of our binaries have significant non-zero eccentricities ranging over all periods. Their orbits are non-circular despite the fact that the Roche-lobe radii are smaller than the maximum size of a typical AGB star and tidal circularisation should have been strong when the objects were on the AGB. We derive a distribution of companion masses that is peaked around 1.09 $M_{\odot }$ with a standard deviation of 0.62 $M_{\odot }$. The large spread in companion masses highlights the diversity of post-AGB binary systems. Furthermore, we find that only post-AGB stars with high effective temperatures (> 5500 K) in wide orbits are depleted in refractory elements, suggesting that re-accretion of material from a circumbinary disc is an ongoing process. It appears, however, that chemical depletion is inefficient for the closest orbits irrespective of the actual surface temperature.

21 pages total, 3 appendices, 8 figures excluding appendix figures, 3 tables

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