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Ítem THE ARAUCARIA PROJECT: The FIRST-OVERTONE CLASSICAL CEPHEID in the ECLIPSING SYSTEM OGLE-LMC-CEP-2532(Institute of Physics Publishing, 2015-06) Pilecki, Bogumił; Graczyk, Dariusz; Gieren, Wolfgang; Pietrzyński, Grzegorz; Thompson, Ian B.; Smolec, Radosław; Udalski, Andrzej; Soszyński, Igor; Konorski, Piotr; Taormina, Mónica; Gallenne, Alexandre; Minniti, DanteWe present here the first spectroscopic and photometric analysis of the double-lined eclipsing binary containing the classical, first-overtone (FO) Cepheid OGLE-LMC-CEP-2532 (MACHO 81.8997.87). The system has an orbital period of 800 days and the Cepheid is pulsating with a period of 2.035 days. Using spectroscopic data from three high-class telescopes and photometry from three surveys spanning 7500 days, we are able to derive the dynamical masses for both stars with an accuracy better than 3%. This makes the Cepheid in this system one of a few lassical Cepheids with an accurate dynamical mass determination (M1 = 3.90 +:0.10 MM). The companion is probably slightly less massive (3.82 ±0.10 MM ), but may have the same mass within errors (M2 M1 = 0.981 ±0.015). The system has an age of about 185 million years and the Cepheid is in a more advanced evolutionary stage. For the first time precise parameters are derived for both stars in this system. Due to the lack of the secondary eclipse for many years, not much was known about the Cepheids companion. In our analysis, we used extra information from the pulsations and the orbital solution from the radial velocity curve. The best model predicts a grazing secondary eclipse shallower than 1 mmag, hence undetectable in the data, about 370 days after the primary eclipse. The dynamical mass obtained here is the most accurate known for a FO Cepheid and will contribute to the solution of the Cepheid mass discrepancy problem. © 2015. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.Ítem The Orbit and Dynamical Mass of Polaris: Observations with the CHARA Array(Institute of Physics, 2024-08) Evans, Nancy Remage; Schaefer, Gail H.; Gallenne, Alexandre; Torres, Guillermo; Horch, Elliott P.; Anderson, Richard I.; Monnier, John D.; Roettenbacher, Rachael M.; Baron, Fabien; Anugu, Narsireddy; Davidson, James W.; Kervella, Pierre; Bras, Garance; Proffitt, Charles; Mérand, Antoine; Karovska, Margarita; Jones, Jeremy; Lanthermann, Cyprien; Kraus, Stefan; Codron, Isabelle; Bond, Howard E.; Viviani, GiordanoThe 30 yr orbit of the Cepheid Polaris has been followed with observations by the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array from 2016 through 2021. An additional measurement has been made with speckle interferometry at the Apache Point Observatory. Detection of the companion is complicated by its comparative faintness—an extreme flux ratio. Angular diameter measurements appear to show some variation with pulsation phase. Astrometric positions of the companion were measured with a custom grid-based model-fitting procedure and confirmed with the CANDID software. These positions were combined with the extensive radial velocities (RVs) discussed by Torres to fit an orbit. Because of the imbalance of the sizes of the astrometry and RV data sets, several methods of weighting are discussed. The resulting mass of the Cepheid is 5.13 ± 0.28 M ⊙. Because of the comparatively large eccentricity of the orbit (0.63), the mass derived is sensitive to the value found for the eccentricity. The mass combined with the distance shows that the Cepheid is more luminous than predicted for this mass from evolutionary tracks. The identification of surface spots is discussed. This would give credence to the identification of a radial velocity variation with a period of approximately 120 days as a rotation period. Polaris has some unusual properties (rapid period change, a phase jump, variable amplitude, and unusual polarization). However, a pulsation scenario involving pulsation mode, orbital periastron passage, and low pulsation amplitude can explain these characteristics within the framework of pulsation seen in Cepheids.Ítem The Orbit and Mass of the Cepheid AW Per(Institute of Physics, 2024-09) Evans, Nancy Remage; Gallenne, Alexandre; Kervella, Pierre; Mérand, Antoine; Monnier, John; Anderson, Richard I; Günther, H. Moritz; Proffitt, Charles; Winston, Elaine M.; Pietrzynski, Grzegorz; Gieren, Wolfgang; Kuraszkiewicz, Joanna; Anugu, Narsireddy; Roettenbacher, Rachael M.; Lanthermann, Cyprien; Gutierrez, Mayra; Schaefer, Gail; Setterholm, Benjamin R.; Ibrahim, Noura; Kraus, StefanThe Cepheid AW Per is a component in a multiple system with a long-period orbit. The radial velocities of Griffin cover the 38 yr orbit well. An extensive program of interferometry with the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy array is reported here, from which the long-period orbit is determined. In addition, a Hubble Space Telescope high-resolution spectrum in the ultraviolet demonstrates that the companion is itself a binary with nearly equal-mass components. These data combined with a distance from Gaia provide a mass of the Cepheid (primary) of M 1 = 6.79 ± 0.85 M ⊙. The combined mass of the secondary is M S = 8.79 ± 0.50 M ⊙. The accuracy of the mass will be improved after the fourth Gaia data release, expected in approximately two years.