The orbital elements and physical properties of the eclipsing binary BD+36°3317, a probable member of δ Lyrae cluster

¹ Astronomical Institute of the Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, V Holešovičkách 2, 180 00 Praha 8, Troja, Czech Republic
e-mail: kiran.evrim@gmail.com
² University of Ege, Department of Astronomy & Space Sciences, 35 100 Bornova, İzmir, Turkey
³ Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 251 65 Ondřejov, Czech Republic

Received: 19 August 2015
Accepted: 20 November 2015

Abstract

Context. The fact that eclipsing binaries belong to a stellar group is useful, because the former can be used to estimate distance and additional properties of the latter, and vice versa.

Aims. Our goal is to analyse new spectroscopic observations of BD+ 36°3317 along with the photometric observations from the literature and, for the first time, to derive all basic physical properties of this binary. We aim to find out whether the binary is indeed a member of the δ Lyr open cluster.

Methods. The spectra were reduced using the IRAF program and the radial velocities were measured with the program SPEFO. The line spectra of both components were disentangled with the program KOREL and compared to a grid of synthetic spectra. The final combined radial-velocity and photometric solution was obtained with the program PHOEBE.

Results. We obtained the following physical elements of BD+36°3317: M₁ = 2.24 ± 0.07 M_⊙, M₂ = 1.52 ± 0.03 M_⊙, R₁ = 1.76 ± 0.01 R_⊙, R₂ = 1.46 ± 0.01 R_⊙, log L₁ = 1.52 ± 0.08 L_⊙, log L₂ = 0.81 ± 0.07 L_⊙. We derived the effective temperatures T_eff,1 = 10 450 ± 420 K, T_eff,2 = 7623 ± 328 K. Both components are located close to zero age main sequence in the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram and their masses and radii are consistent with the predictions of stellar evolutionary models. Our results imply the average distance to the system d̅ = 330 ± 29 pc. We re-investigated the membership of BD+ 36°3317 in the δ Lyr cluster and confirmed it. The distance to BD+ 36°3317, given above, therefore represents an accurate estimate of the true distance for δ Lyr cluster.

Conclusions. The reality of the δ Lyr cluster and the cluster membership of BD+ 36°3317 have been reinforced.