NOAO > Observing Info > Approved Programs > 2010B-0360
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PI: Leslie Hebb, Vanderbilt University, leslie.hebb@vanderbilt.edu
Address: Physics Department, 6301 Stevenson Center, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
CoI: Keivan Stassun, Vanderbilt University
CoI: Andrew Collier-Cameron, University of St Andrews
CoI: Don Pollacco, Queen's University Belfast
CoI: Joshua Pepper, Vanderbilt University
CoI: Scott Fleming, University of Florida
Title: Measuring metallicities of Benchmark Eclipsing Binaries and Eclipsing M dwarfs
Abstract: Our main goal of this proposal is to provide improved calibration and testing of theoretical stellar evolution models and empirical mass relations. To do this, we will (1) make precise measurements of the metallicities of known eclipsing binaries with masses and radii measured to ``benchmark-grade" precision (\le 3%), but which currently lack metallicities, and (2) empirically determine the mass-radius relationship of M dwarf stars using a sample of F/G/K+M dwarf eclipsing binaries in order to establish in detail how the measured radii depend on activity and metallicity.
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