Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Aug 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007mnras.379.1665l&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 379, Issue 4, pp. 1665-1680.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Binaries: Eclipsing, Stars: Individual: Xxcephei, Stars: Oscillations
Scientific paper
We obtained CCD photometric observations of the Algol-type semidetached binary XXCephei (XXCep) during 15 nights from 2002 September 17 to 2003 February 2, and also on 2005 January 21. Except for those data taken on the last night of the concentrated observing season, the 3881 measurements were obtained over an interval of only 106 nights. From these data, four new times of minimum light were calculated. The (O- C) diagram formed from all available timings, and thus the orbital period of the system, can be partly represented as a beat effect between two cyclical variations with different periods (yr, yr) and amplitudes (K1=0.015d, K2=0.103d), respectively. Both physical and non-physical interpretations of these cycles were investigated. The long-term sinusoidal variation is too long for magnetic cycling in solar-type single and close binary stars. In addition, we have studied the effect of a possible secular period variation. By analysing the residuals from our Wilson-Devinney (WD) binary model, we found small light variations with a period of 5.99d with amplitudes growing toward longer wavelengths. We think that these oscillations may be produced by instabilities at the systemic L1 point (also occupied by the point of the cool star) and that these instabilities are, in turn, caused by non-uniform and sporadic convection. There is also a short-period oscillation of about 45min in the WD light residuals that is attributed to accretion on to the mass-gaining primary component from a feeble gas stream originating on the cool donor star.
Kim Chun-Hwey
Koch Robert H.
Lee Jae Woo
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