Mass Outflow from the X-ray Binary X2127+119 in M15

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2002-07-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207383v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 336 (2002) 962

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 9 figures, accepted by MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05833.x

The bright X-ray binary X2127+119 in the core of the globular cluster M15 has long been thought to be in an unusual evolutionary state, in which the binary is embedded in a common envelope. Support for this idea comes from X2127+119's absorption lines, which are blue shifted at all orbital phases, indicating the existence of outflows from the system. A common-envelope scenario implies that the absorption lines should exhibit maximum blue shift near mid-eclipse (binary phase 0.0). We have re-analysed INT spectra of X2127+119 obtained in 1986, 1987 and 1988 using the latest orbital ephemeris (substantially different from that used in the original analysis), and find that the orbital phase at which the absorption lines show a maximum blue shift is not 0.0, but rather 0.25 -- 0.3. These results indicate that a common-envelope scenario for X2127+119 may not work. In addition, from spectrograms of the He II 4686 line, we report the first tentative detection of X2127+119's companion star.

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