Image tube spectroscopic studies of rapid variables. IV - Spectroscopic and photometric observations of AE Aquarii

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Dec 1981

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Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 104, no. 1, Dec. 1981, p. 24-32. NSF-NASA-supported research.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Absorption Spectra, Binary Stars, Emission Spectra, Stellar Spectra, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Variable Stars, Carbon, K Stars, Lagrange Coordinates, Light Curve, Line Spectra, Periodic Variations, Spectrum Analysis, Stellar Mass Ejection, Stellar Rotation, Temporal Resolution

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Photoelectric and time-resolved spectroscopic observations of the short-period eruptive binary AE Aqr are presented. The system has a period of 0.4116537 days, and emission and absorption-line components equal to 135 km/sec and 159 km/sec, respectively. The spectral type of the absorption-line component is found to be K5V, from which M1 = 0.82 solar mass, M2 = 0.69 solar mass, and i = 64 deg. A predominantly Ca II emission region occurs on the hemisphere of the K5V star facing the broad emission-line component, whose center of light is located 0.64 of the way from the inner Lagrangian point to the center of mass of the K star. This emission appears to be associated with the transfer of mass from the K5V star to the accretion disk surrounding the primary. In the absence of flare activity, the light of the system is variable in the orbital period with a range in V of about 0.16 mag; maxima occurs near the times of maximum recession velocity and during the approach of each of the two components of the system (0.25 P and 0.80 P).

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