Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Aug 2007
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Binary Stars as Critical Tools & Tests in Contemporary Astrophysics, Proceedings of IAU Symposium #240, held 22-25 August, 2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Scientific paper
The application of tomography to the study of gas flows in interacting binaries has led to fascinating images of the Cataclysmic Variables and Algol-type binaries. Such detailed images are currently unachievable using direct-imaging techniques. Numerous images of accretion flows have now been derived from optical and ultraviolet spectra and they have been used to identify multiple emission sources including the gas stream, accretion disk, accretion annulus, shock regions, and the chromosphere of the mass loser. It was difficult to distinguish between the separate sources of emission since these sources have overlapping velocities in the Doppler tomogram. However, with the aid of a new spectral synthesis code, we can now systematically extract the individual emission sources to sequentially isolate the images of the disk and gas stream. With these new tools, we have begun to extract the critical properties of the disk and gas stream more accurately than previously possible.
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