Locating the emission line regions in polars. II. Doppler imaging of BL Hydri

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Dec 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999a%26a...352..167m&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.352, p.167-176 (1999)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Stars: Individual: Bl Hyi, Stars: Novae, Cataclysmic Variables, Stars: Fundamental Parameters, Stars: Evolution, Stars: Binaries: General

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Phase-resolved spectroscopic observations of BL Hyi obtained during the high mass transfer state are presented. The Hα , He I 5875 and He I 6678 emission line profiles are analyzed with the Doppler tomography technique. It is shown that these emissions arise from a single region in the accretion stream. No emission from the secondary star, either in the Hα or in the He I line, could be identified. The accretion column could not be detected on the tomographic reconstructions of the system. An orbital ephemeris based on the radial velocities of the Na I D emission line is derived, assuming a chromospheric origin in the secondary star. The spectroscopic observations provide a consistent picture of the accretion geometry in the system. Most of the optical emission line flux was found to be formed in a reservoir of low angular momentum gas filling a substantial fraction of the Roche lobe. Combining our results with literature data it was possible to constrain the absolute longitude of the magnetic axis in this classical polar.

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