Evidence for a Bipolar Geometry in R Coronae Borealis?

Details Evidence for a Bipolar Geometry in R Coronae Borealis? Evidence for a Bipolar Geometry in R Coronae Borealis?

Feb 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997apj...476..870c&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal v.476, p.870

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Stars: Circumstellar Matter, Polarization, Stars: Individual Constellation Name: R Coronae Borealis, Stars: Variables: Other R Coronae Borealis

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The R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars produce dust at irregular intervals, but the distribution of the circumstellar material is not known. We report spectropolarimetry of R Coronae Borealis (R CrB) itself, obtained in a deep decline with the Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOAO telescope. The continuum is polarized ~1% in the red, rising to ~2% in the blue. There are significant polarization variations across the emission lines. The polarization of the Na I D lines indicates that light from the emission-line region is scattered but at a different angle from the stellar continuum. The position angle of the continuum polarization is almost constant from 1 mu m to 7000 Angstroms but then changes rapidly, rotating by ~60 deg between 7000 and 4000 Angstroms. This behavior is strikingly similar to that produced in post--asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars having an obscuring torus and bipolar dust lobes. These new data strengthen the earlier suggestion that there is a preferred direction to the dust ejections in R CrB. Dust ejections seem to occur predominantly along two roughly orthogonal directions consistent with a bipolar geometry. If confirmed, this finding will reinforce the relationship between the RCB stars and other post--AGB stars.

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