Fundamental parameters of 4 massive eclipsing binaries in Westerlund 1

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Koumpia, Eugenia [1 ]
Bonanos, Alceste Z. [1 ]
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[1] Natl Observ Athens, Inst Astron & Astrophys, GR-15236 Athens, Greece
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ACTIVE OB STARS: STRUCTURE, EVOLUTION, MASS-LOSS, AND CRITICAL LIMITS | 2011年 / 272期
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open clusters and associations: individual (Westerlund 1); stars: fundamental parameters; stars: early-type; binaries: eclipsing; stars: Wolf-Rayet; CLUSTER; STARS;
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10.1017/S1743921311011240
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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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.
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