Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1971
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1971natur.234..406w&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 234, Issue 5329, pp. 406-407 (1971).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Scientific paper
DEVINNEY1 has shown that the observational peculiarities of the binary system β Lyrae can best be understood in terms of the secondary mass being a collapsed star (black hole) surrounded by an opaque or nearly opaque disk. This communication points out that the recently released2 ultraviolet photometry from the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO) leads to the same conclusion. Fig. 1 shows the light curves of β Lyrae given in ref. 2, for which the stated accuracy is +/- 0.01 magnitude. One might have some reservations about these observations because the shorter wavelength light curves fail to close after one cycle and the presentation (hand-drawn curves instead of the original observation points) is counter to normal practice. It may, however, be a very long time before confirming observations of this extremely interesting binary can be gathered, and they do relate in an important way to the question of whether β Lyrae contains a collapsed star. Kondo et al.2 mentioned briefly the possible presence of a black hole in the system, but not for the reason advanced here.
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