KIC 10736223: An Algol-type Eclipsing Binary That Has Just Undergone the Rapid Mass-transfer Stage

Abstract

This paper reports the discovery of an Algol system KIC 10736223 that just passed the rapid mass transfer stage. From the light-curve and radial-velocity modeling we find KIC 10736223 to be a detached Algol system with the less-massive secondary nearly filling its Roche lobe. Based on the short-cadence Kepler data, we analyzed intrinsic oscillations of the pulsator and identified six secured independent δ Scuti-type pulsation modes ( f 1 , f 3 , f 9 , f 19 , f 42 , and f 48 ). We compute two grids of theoretical models to reproduce the δ Scuti frequencies, and find that fitting results of mass-accreting models agree well with those of single-star evolutionary models. The fundamental parameters of the primary star yielded with asteroseismology are M ⊙ , Z  = 0.009 ± 0.001, R ⊙ , , K, and L  =  L ⊙ . The asteroseismic parameters match well with the dynamical parameters derived from the binary model. Moreover, our asteroseismic results show that the pulsator is an almost unevolved star with an age between 9.46 and 11.65 Myr for single-star evolutionary models and 2.67–3.14 Myr for mass-accreting models. Therefore, KIC 10736223 may be an Algol system that has just undergone the rapid mass-transfer process.