2020AJ....159...28A

Binary stars are a very important source of astronomical information. Those short-period binaries observed by means of both spectroscopy and interferometry can provide, through their corresponding orbits, precise values regarding individual masses as well as orbital parallaxes. For this reason, it is fundamental to attempt to optically resolve double-lined spectroscopic binaries. In the present article, we used the elaboration of a specific algorithm in order to determine the necessary telescope aperture to resolve a concrete spectroscopic binary. To that end, using available photometric and spectroscopic information, we established a 3D model for each spectroscopic binary with an orbit from which we deduced the most probable maximum and minimum separations between the components. In this manner, using the obtained calibrations in our study, we also deduced different physical parameters of the components of each system. The methodology presented here was tested satisfactorily with a list of spectroscopic binaries that had been optically resolved and that have both the spectroscopic and visual orbits.