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Orbits, Distance, and Stellar Masses of the Massive Triple Star Sigma Orionis

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arxiv 1610.01984 v1 pith:LLXTMFT4 submitted 2016-10-06 astro-ph.SR

Orbits, Distance, and Stellar Masses of the Massive Triple Star Sigma Orionis

G. H. Schaefer , C. A. Hummel , D. R. Gies , R. T. Zavala , J. D. Monnier , F. M. Walter , N. H. Turner , F. Baron
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We present interferometric observations of the sigma Orionis triple system using the CHARA Array, NPOI, and VLTI. Using these measurements, we spatially resolve the orbit of the close spectroscopic binary (Aa,Ab) for the first time and present a revised orbit for the wide pair (A,B). Combining the visual orbits with previously published radial velocity measurements and new radial velocities measured at CTIO, we derive dynamical masses for the three massive stars in the system of M_Aa = 16.99 +/- 0.20 Msun, M_Ab = 12.81 +/- 0.18 Msun, and M_B = 11.5 +/- 1.2 Msun. The inner and outer orbits in the triple are not coplanar, with a relative inclination of 120-127 deg. The orbital parallax provides a precise distance of 387.5 +/- 1.3 pc to the system. This is a significant improvement over previous estimates of the distance to the young sigma Orionis cluster.

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