Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jun 1988
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 232, June 1, 1988, p. 481-486. Research supported by th
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Binary Stars, Early Stars, Photosphere, Radial Velocity, Reflection, Stellar Rotation, A Stars, Boundary Layers, Velocity Distribution
Scientific paper
The photospheric flow caused by the reflection effect in an early-type star, which is a nonsynchronously rotating component of a close binary is calculated. These large-scale, unsteady currents result from the presence of a moving 'hotspot' that is sweeping the star's equatorial belt. It is shown that they are confined to a thin thermoviscous boundary layer. Because the radial component of the circulation velocity is very small, it is also concluded that the reflection effect is not likely to hinder systematically the gravitational sorting of the chemical elements in the external layers of a slowly rotating, tidally distorted A-type star. In nonsynchronous rotators with very short orbital periods, however, diffusion might have a marked preference away from the equatorial belt, where the vertical speed in the moving 'hotspot' attains its largest value. According to the semiquantitative calculations, this upper limit is still less than a few cm/s in a 4-day period A-type star.
Tassoul Jean Louis
Tassoul Monique
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