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Volume 692, December 2024
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Article Number | A192 | |
Number of page(s) | 31 | |
Section | Stellar structure and evolution | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202450176 | |
Published online | 13 December 2024 |
The rotation rate of single- and double-lined southern O stars
Determining what increases the rotation rate in binaries
1
Ruhr University Bochum, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Astronomical Institute (AIRUB), 44780 Bochum, Germany
2
Polish Academy of Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Bartycka 18, 00-716 Warszawa, Poland
3
Universidad Católica del Norte, Instituto de Astronomía, Avenida Angamos 0610, Antofagasta, Chile
⋆ Corresponding authors; sublex@astro.rub.de; haas@astro.rub.de; chini@astro.rub.de
Received:
29
March
2024
Accepted:
14
October
2024
We determined the projected rotational velocity (v sin i) of 238 southern O stars selected from the Galactic O-star Survey. The sample contains 130 spectroscopic single stars (C), 36 single-lined binaries (SB1), and 72 SB2 systems (including eight triples). We applied the Fourier method to high-resolution spectra taken at Cerro Murphy, Chile, and supplemented by archival spectra. The overall v sin i statistics peaks at slow rotators (40–100 km/s) with a tail towards medium (100–200 km/s) and fast rotators (200–400 km/s). Binaries, on average, show increased rotation, which differs for close (Porb < 10 d) and wide binaries (10 d < Porb < 3700 d), and for primaries and secondaries. The spin-up of close binaries is well explained by the superposition of spin-orbit synchronisation and mass transfer via Roche-lobe overflow. The increased rotation of wide binaries, however, needs another explanation. Therefore, we discuss various spin-up mechanisms. Timescale arguments lead us to favour a scenario where wide O binaries are spun-up by a combination of cloud or disk fragmentation, which lays the basis of triple and multiple stars, and the subsequent merging or swallowing of low-mass by higher-mass stars or proto-stars.
Key words: binaries: spectroscopic / stars: evolution / stars: massive / stars: rotation
© The Authors 2024
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