TESS Photometry of the Eclipsing $\delta$ Scuti Star AI Hydrae

Abstract

AI Hya has been known as an eclipsing binary with a monoperiodic $\delta$ Sct pulsator. We present the results from its {\it TESS} photometry observed during Sector 7. Including our five minimum epochs, the eclipse timing diagram displays the apsidal motion with a rate of $\dot{\omega }$ = 0.075$\pm$0.031 deg year${}^{-1}$, which corresponds to an apsidal period of U = 4800$\pm$2000 years. The binary star model represents that the smaller, less massive primary component is 427 K hotter than the pulsating secondary, and our distance of 612$\pm$36 pc is in good agreement with the $Gaia$ distance of 644$\pm$26 pc. We subtracted the binary effects from the observed {\it TESS} data and applied a multifrequency analysis to these residuals. The result reveals that AI Hya is multiperiodic in its pulsation. Of 14 signals detected, four ($f_1$, $f_2$, $f_3$, $f_6$) may be considered independent pulsation frequencies. The period ratios of $P_{\mathrm{pul}}/P_{\mathrm{orb}}$ = 0.012$-$0.021 and the pulsation constants of $Q$ = 0.30$-$0.52 days correspond to $\delta$ Sct pulsations in binaries. We found that the secondary component of AI Hya pulsates in both radial fundamental $F$ modes ($f_2$ and $f_3$) and non-radial $g_1$ modes with a low degree of $\ell$ = 2 ($f_1$ and $f_6$).

16 pages, including 5 figures and 5 tables, accepted for publication in PASJ

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