Evidence for CNO processed material in the accretion disk of GP Comae

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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Abundance, Accretion Disks, Cataclysmic Variables, Dwarf Novae, Nuclear Fusion, Stellar Spectra, Carbon, Emission Spectra, Line Spectra, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Spectrum Analysis, Stellar Evolution

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NIR spectroscopic observations of GP Com are reported. Data obtained using the 2.5-m Isaac Newton Telescope and the 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope at La Palma during April and June 1988 and with the 5-m Hale reflector at Palomar Observatory during January 1983 are presented in tables and sample spectra and discussed in detail. Number ratios H/He less than 0.00001, N/O = about 50, and N/C greater than 100 are calculated under the assumption of a uniform optically thin slab of gas in LTE. From the N overabundance it is inferred that the material observed is being extracted by Roche-lobe overflow from the secondary's H-exhausted core, at a time after most C and O have been converted to N in the CNO cycle.

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