Astronomy & Astrophysics manuscript no. dBa_orbits c ESO 2019 April 9, 2019 Barium & related stars and their white-dwarf companions ?, ?? II. Main-sequence and subgiant stars A. Escorza1; 2, D. Karinkuzhi2; 3, A. Jorissen2, L. Siess2, H. Van Winckel1, D. Pourbaix2, C. Johnston1, B. Miszalski4; 5, G-M. Oomen1; 6, M. Abdul-Masih1, H.M.J. Boffin7, P. North8, R. Manick1; 4, S. Shetye2; 1, and J. Mikołajewska9 1 Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium e-mail:
[email protected] 2 Institut d’Astronomie et d’Astrophysique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium 3 Department of physics, Jnana Bharathi Campus, Bangalore University, Bangalore 560056, India 4 South African Astronomical Observatory, PO Box 9, Observatory 7935, South Africa 5 Southern African Large Telescope Foundation, PO Box 9, Observatory 7935, South Africa 6 Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands 7 ESO, Karl-Schwarzschild-str. 2, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany 8 Institut de Physique, Laboratoire d’astrophysique, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Observatoire, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland 9 N. Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Bartycka 18, 00-716 Warsaw, Poland Accepted ABSTRACT Barium (Ba) dwarfs and CH subgiants are the less-evolved analogues of Ba and CH giants. They are F- to G-type main-sequence stars polluted with heavy elements by a binary companion when the latter was on the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB). This companion is now a white dwarf that in most cases cannot be directly detected. We present a large systematic study of 60 objects classified as Ba dwarfs or CH subgiants.