Ultraviolet Study of the Active Interacting Binary Star R Arae using Archival IUE Data

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2009-09-22

arxiv.org/abs/0909.4047v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

13 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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The eclipsing and strongly interacting binary star system R Arae (HD149730) is in a very active and very short-lived stage of its evolution. R Ara consists of a B9V primary and an unknown secondary. We have collected the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) archival data on R Ara, with most of the data being studied for the first time. There are 117 high resolution IUE spectra taken in 1980, 1982, 1985, 1989, and 1991. We provide photometric and spectroscopic evidence for mass transfer and propose a geometry for the accretion structure. We use colour scale radial velocity plots to view the complicated behavior of the blended absorption features and to distinguish the motions of hotter and cooler regions within the system. We observed a primary eclipse of R Ara in 2008 and have verified that its period is increasing. A model of the system and its evolutionary status is presented.

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