Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994aas...185.2110a&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 185th AAS Meeting, #21.10; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 26, p.1345
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Spectroscopic techniques have been used to model the V644 Mon (HD 51840) system, a single-line binary consisting of an early-type main sequence (B1 V) star and a mass-losing late-type supergiant (K0 I-II). High resolution CCD spectra of V644 Mon were obtained at the Ritter and McMath-Pierce Observatories between November 1993 and April 1994. An orbital solution yields a period of 120.6+/-0.1 days and semi-amplitude for the K star of 60.4+/-1.4 km/s. A v sin i \ for the K star of 20+/-5 km/s is measured, and its bolometric magnitude and temperature suggest a radius near 80R_sun. From these data an inclination near 40 degrees is estimated for the system. Photometric evidence for ellipsoidal variations suggests that the K star is tidally deformed and transferring matter through the inner Lagrangian point onto and around the B star. A consistent model yields masses of 4M_sun \ and 13M_sun \ for the K and B stars, respectively, the former having lost as much as 10M_sun. This material is most likely responsible for the shell/wind iron peak absorption features observed by IUE against the UV continuum of the B star. Optical shell/wind lines are also observed at Hα , He I lambda 5875, Na I D, and Ca II K.
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