Internal stellar rotation and orbital period modulation in close binary systems

Details Internal stellar rotation and orbital period modulation in close binary systems Internal stellar rotation and orbital period modulation in close binary systems

Jul 2006

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 369, Issue 4, pp. 1773-1779.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Mhd: Stars: Activity: Binaries: Close: Stars: Magnetic Fields: Stars: Rotation, Mhd, Stars: Activity, Binaries: Close, Stars: Magnetic Fields, Stars: Rotation

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The orbital period modulation, observed in close binary systems with late-type secondary stars, is considered in the framework of a general model that allows us to test the hypothesis proposed by Applegate. It relates the orbital period variation to the modulation of the gravitational quadrupole moment of their magnetically active secondary stars produced by angular momentum exchanges within their convective envelopes. By considering the case of RS CVn binary systems, it is found that the surface angular velocity variation of the secondary component required by Applegate's hypothesis is between 4 and 12 per cent, i.e. too large to be compatible with the observations and that the kinetic energy dissipated in its convection zone ranges from 4 to 43 times that supplied by the stellar luminosity along one cycle of the orbital period modulation. Similar results are obtained for other classes of close binary systems by applying a scaling relationship based on a simplified internal structure model. The effect of rapid rotation is briefly discussed finding that it is unlikely that the rotational quenching of the turbulent viscosity may solve the discrepancy. Therefore, the hypothesis proposed by Applegate is not adequate to explain the orbital period modulation of close binary systems with a late-type secondary.

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