Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
May 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003a%26a...402.1043a&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.402, p.1043-1053 (2003)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Techniques: Spectroscopic, Stars: Activity, Binaries: Spectroscopic, Stars: Imaging, Stars: Individual: Ux Ari
Scientific paper
This paper presents a technique for separation of individual components in composite stellar spectra. The technique is based on a comparison of residual depths of the component spectral lines to residual depths of the corresponding spectral lines of a single star of the same spectral class. We apply the technique to high resolution spectra of the RS CVn system UX Ari, where the spectral lines from all three components are well resolved. The deduced variations in the relative flux of the primary component agree well with simultaneously obtained photometric observations of UX Ari. The starspots causing the light curve variations and the facular areas causing the chromospheric emission seem to be separated by about 180o in longitude on the surface of the primary component. We also find that the secondary component of UX Ari is subject to some chromospheric activity. Finally, some fundamental parameters of the third star in the spectrum are derived and discussed.
Based on observations made with the Nordic Optical Telescope, operated on the island of La Palma jointly by Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias.
Aarum Ulvås V.
Engvold Odbjørn
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