Spectroscopic evidence for an atmospheric eclipse of delta Sagittae

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Eclipsing Binary Stars, Emission Spectra, Spectrograms, Stellar Atmospheres, Stellar Mass, Stellar Spectra, Line Spectra, Main Sequence Stars, Nebulae, Orbital Elements, Sagittarius Constellation, Stellar Spectrophotometry

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High dispersion spectrograms obtained in 1980 and 1981 confirm earlier reports (McLaughlin et al., 1952) that the star HD 187076/7 or delta-Sagittae, a system of the zeta-Aur type, undergoes atmospheric eclipses approximately every 3725 days. Reimers and Kudritzki (1980) demonstrated the possibility of determining the individual masses in the system. The observed mass-function of 0.139 is adopted, and a high orbital inclination (70 deg) is assumed. If the B7 star is a main-sequence object, its mass is close to 4 solar mass (Popper, 1980); this also implies a mass of 15.5 solar mass for the M star. Double-peaked emission lines were also found, and are attributed to a disk surrounding the early-type component. This, along with reflection nebulosity around the star, tends to complicate photometry, making it more difficult to detect a marginal eclipse.

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