Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects, Date: 2007/07/23 - 2007/07/27, Location: Bamberg, Germany

Publication date: 2008-01-01
Volume: 392 Pages: 221 - 224
ISSN: 978-1-58381-654-7
Publisher: Published by the University of Chicago Press for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Author:

Ostensen, Roy
Oreiro Rey, Raquel ; Hu, Haili ; Drechsel, H ; Heber, U ; Heber, U ; Jeffery, S ; Napiwotzki, R

Keywords:

Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics, STARS, 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences, 5101 Astronomical sciences, 5107 Particle and high energy physics

Abstract:

The sdB star HS 2231+2441 was discovered to be an eclipsing system of the HW Vir type, with a companion below or at the very low mass limit for an M-dwarf system. The low spectroscopic gravity determined for the primary requires the mass of the primary to be less than 0.3Mȯ, indicating that it is not an extreme horizontal branch (EHB) star, but a non helium burning post-RGB star. Evolutionary calculations are consistent with this interpretation and allows the mass to be further constrained.