Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-11-25
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 4 figures, Workshop on Extreme Horizontal Branch Stars and Related Objects, Jun 2003, Keele, UK
Scientific paper
AA Dor is an eclipsing, close, post common-envelope binary consisting of a sdOB primary star and an unseen secondary with an extraordinary small mass - formally a brown dwarf. The brown dwarf may have been a former planet which survived a common envelope phase and has even gained mass. A recent determination of the components' masses from results of NLTE spectral analysis and subsequent comparison to evolutionary tracks shows a discrepancy to masses derived from radial-velocity and the eclipse curves. Phase-resolved high-resolution and high-SN spectroscopy was carried out in order to investigate on this problem. We present results of a NLTE spectral analysis of the primary, an analysis of its orbital parameters, and discuss possible evolutionary scenarios.
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