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Paper: Low-Resolution Radial-Velocity Monitoring of Pulsating sdBs in the Kepler Field
Volume: 481, 6th Meeting on Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects
Page: 287
Authors: Telting, J.; Østensen, R.; Reed, M.; Kiæerad, F.; Farris, L.; Baran, A.; Oreiro, R.; O'Toole, S.
Abstract: We present preliminary results from an ongoing spectroscopic campaign to uncover the binary status of the 18 known pulsating subdwarf B stars and the one pulsating BHB star observed with the Kepler spacecraft. During the 2010–2012 observing seasons, we have used the KP4m Mayall, NOT, and WHT telescopes to obtain low-resolution (R∼2000–2500) Balmer-line spectroscopy of our sample stars. We applied a standard cross-correlation technique to derive radial velocities, and find clear evidence for binarity in several of the pulsators, some of which were not previously known to be binaries.
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