Brightness Oscillations in Models of Young Binary Systems with Low-Mass Secondary Components

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2011-05-16

arxiv.org/abs/1105.3066v1

Astronomy Letters, 2010, Vol. 36, No. 7, pp. 498--505

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

13 pages,8 figures, 1 table

Scientific paper

10.1134/S1063773710070054

We consider a model for the cyclic brightness variations of a young star with a low-mass companion that accretes matter from the remnants of a protostellar cloud. At small inclinations of the binary orbit to the line of sight, the streams of matter and the density waves excited in the circumbinary disk can screen the primary component of the binary from the observer. To study these phenomena, we have computed grids of hydrodynamic models for binary systems by the SPH method based on which we have constructed the phase light curves as a function of the rotation angle of the apsidal line relative to the observer. The model parameters were varied within the following ranges: the component mass ratio q = 0.01-0.1 and the eccentricity e = 0-0.5. We adopted optical grain characteristics typical of circumstellar dust. Our computations have shown that the brightness oscillations with orbital phase can have a complex structure. The amplitudes and shapes of the light curves depend strongly on the inclination of the binary orbit and its orientation relative to the observer and on the accretion rate. The results of our computations are used to analyze the cyclic activity of UX Ori stars.

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