The record-breaking rotational braking of the He strong CP star HD 37776

Details The record-breaking rotational braking of the He strong CP star HD 37776 The record-breaking rotational braking of the He strong CP star HD 37776

2007-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/0712.0524v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

3 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings of the "CP#AP Workshop", Vienna, 10.-14.Sept.2007, eds.J.Ziznovsky, J.Zverko, E.Paunzen, M.Neto

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We study the long-term light and spectral variations in the He-strong magnetic chemically peculiar star HD 37776 (V901 Ori) to search for changes of its 1.5387 d period in 1976-2007. We analyze all published photometric observations and spectrophotometry in the HeI 4026 A line. The data were supplmented with 506 new (U)VB observations obtained during the last 2 observing seasons, 66 estimates of HeI equivalent widths on 23 CFHT spectrograms and 35 of the 6-m Zeeman spectrograms. All the 1895 particular observations heve been processed simultaneously. We confirm the previously suspected increase of the period in HD 37776 which is a record-breaking among CP stars. The mean rate of the period increase during the last 31 years is 0.541+-0.020 s per year. We interpret this ongoing period increase as the slowing down of the star's surface rotation due to momentum loss through events and processes in its magnetosphere.

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