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Title: Discovery of a stripped red giant core in a bright eclipsing binary star
Authors: P. F. L. Maxted (1), D. R. Anderson (1), M. R. Burleigh (2), A. Collier-Cameron (3), U. Heber (4), B. T. Gänsicke (5), S. Geier (4), T. Kupfer (4), T. R. Marsh (5), G. Nelemans (6), S. J. O'Toole (7), R. H. Ostensen (8), B. Smalley (1), R. G. West (2), S. Bloemen (8) ((1) Keele, (2) Leicester, (3) St Andrews, (4) Bamberg, (5) Warwick, (6) Nijmegen, (7) AAO, (8) Leuven)

We report the serendipitous discovery from WASP archive photometry of a binary star in which an apparently normal A-type star (J0247-25A) eclipses a smaller, hotter subdwarf star (J0247-25B). The kinematics of J0247-25A show that it is a blue-straggler member of the Galactic thick-disk. We present follow-up photometry and spectroscopy from which we derive approximate values for the mass, radius and luminosity for J0247-25B assuming that J0247-25A has the mass appropriate for a normal thick-disk star. We find that the properties of J0247-25B are well matched by models for a red giant stripped of its outer layers and currently in a shell hydrogen-burning stage. In this scenario, J0247-25B will go on to become a low mass white dwarf (M~0.25 solar masses) composed mostly of helium. J0247-25B can be studied in much greater detail than the handful of pre helium white dwarfs (pre-He-WD) identified to-date. These results have been published by Maxted et al., 2011. We also present a preliminary analysis of more recent observations of J0247-25 with the UVES spectrograph, from which we derive much improved masses for both stars in the binary. We find that both stars are more massive than expected and that J0247-25A rotates sub-synchronously by a factor of about 2. We also present lightcurves for 5 new eclipsing pre-He-WD subsequently identified from the WASP archive photometry, 4 of which have mass estimates for the subdwarf companion based on a pair of radial velocity measurements.

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Title: Discovery of a stripped red giant core in a bright eclipsing binary system
Authors: P.F.L. Maxted, D.R. Anderson, M.R. Burleigh, A. Collier-Cameron, U. Heber, B.T. Gaensicke, S. Geier, T. Kupfer, T.R. Marsh, G. Nelemans, S.J. O'Toole, R.H. Ostensen, B. Smalley, R.G. West

We have identified a star in the WASP archive photometry with an unusual lightcurve due to the total eclipse of a small, hot star by an apparently normal A-type star and with an orbital period of only 0.668d. From an analysis of the WASP lightcurve together with V-band and I_C-band photometry of the eclipse and a spectroscopic orbit for the A-type star we estimate that the companion star has a mass of (0.22±0.03)Msun and a radius of (0.32±0.01)Rsun, assuming that the A-type star is a main-sequence star with the metalicity appropriate for a thick-disk star. The effective temperature of the companion is (13400±1200)K from which we infer a luminosity of (3±1)Lsun. From a comparison of these parameters to various models we conclude that the companion is most likely to be the remnant of a red giant star that has been very recently stripped of its outer layers by mass transfer onto the A-type star. In this scenario, the companion is currently in a shell hydrogen-burning phase of its evolution, evolving at nearly constant luminosity to hotter effective temperatures prior to ceasing hydrogen burning and fading to become a low-mass white dwarf composed of helium (He-WD). The system will then resemble the pre-He-WD/He-WD companions to A-type and B-type stars recently identified from their Kepler satellite lightcurves (KOI-74, KOI-81 and KIC10657664). This newly discovered binary offers the opportunity to study the evolution of a stripped red giant star through the pre-He-WD stage in great detail.

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