• Title of article

    Fundamental parameters of 4 massive eclipsing binaries in Westerlund 1

  • Author/Authors

    Eugenia Koumpia، نويسنده , , Alceste Z. Bonanos، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
  • Pages
    2
  • From page
    515
  • To page
    516
  • Abstract
    Westerlund 1 is one of the most massive young clusters known in the Local Group, with an age of 3-5 Myr. It contains an assortment of rare evolved massive stars, such as blue, yellow and red supergiants, Wolf-Rayet stars, a luminous blue variable, and a magnetar, as well as 4 massive eclipsing binary systems (Wddeb, Wd13, Wd36, WR77o, see Bonanos 2007). The eclipsing binaries present a rare opportunity to constrain evolutionary models of massive stars, the distance to the cluster and furthermore, to determine a dynamical lower limit for the mass of a magnetar progenitor. Wddeb, being a detached system, is of great interest as it allows determination of the masses of 2 of the most massive unevolved stars in the cluster. We have analyzed spectra of all 4 eclipsing binaries, taken in 2007-2008 with the 6.5 meter Magellan telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile, and present fundamental parameters (masses, radii) for their component stars.
  • Keywords
    stars: early-type , stars: Wolf-Rayet , open clusters and associations: individual (Westerlund 1) , stars: fundamental parameters , binaries: eclipsing
  • Journal title
    Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
  • Serial Year
    2010
  • Journal title
    Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
  • Record number

    667929