Double-lined Spectroscopic Binaries from the LAMOST Low-resolution Survey

Abstract

We report on a data-driven spectral model that we have developed for the identification of double-lined spectroscopic binary stars (SB2s) in the Large Sky Area Multi-Object fiber Spectroscopic Telescope low-resolution survey (R ∼ 1800). Employing simultaneous fitting with both single-star and binary-star models, we detected over 4800 SB2 candidates, where both components are detectably contributing to the spectrum, from an initial pool of 2.6 million objects. Tests show that our model favors FGK-type main-sequence binaries with high mass ratio (q ≥ 0.7) and large radial velocity (RV) separation (ΔRV ≥ 100 km s−1). Almost all of these candidates are positioned above the main sequence in the color–magnitude diagram, indicating their binary nature. Additionally, we utilized various observational data, including spectroscopy, photometry, parallax, and extinction, to determine multiple physical parameters such as the effective temperature, age, metallicity, RV, mass, mass ratio, stellar radius, along with their associated uncertainties for these SB2 candidates. For the 44 candidates with seven or more observational epochs, we provide complete orbital solutions. We make available catalogs containing various stellar parameters for identified SB2 systems.