New southern radio binaries

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Eclipsing Binary Stars, Radio Stars, Southern Sky, Variable Stars, Brightness Temperature, Centimeter Waves, Radiant Flux Density, Stellar Models

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Observations with the Parkes 64-m telescope in 1982 and 1983 have resulted in the detection of eight new southern readio binaries, six of which are believed to be RS CVn binaries. The peak 5-GHz luminosities of three of these stars exceed 10 to the 10th W/Hz sr and equal the extreme values measured for one or two northern binaries. For a source diameter equal to that of the cooler active giant or sub-giant component, the derived peak brightness temperatures of around 10 to the 10th K for two stars are probably inconsistent with the incoherent synchrotron emission mechanism, especially if the emission is strongly circularly polarized. An electron-cyclotron maser appears to be a possible alternative emission mechanism, but there may be difficulties with such a model if the source is as large as the diameter of the active component.

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