Regularities in the Long Term Optical Light Curve of the Black Hole Candidate Binary A0620-00 (V616 Mon)

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1998-06-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9806119v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 5 eps figure, LaTex MNRAS style, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01920.x

We have monitored the R and I magnitudes of the black hole candidate system A0620-00 (V616 Mon) in the years 1991-95 at the Wise Observatory. Combining our data with some additional measurements, we analyze a sparsely covered 7 years light curve of the star. We find that the average R-band magnitude is varying on a time scale of a few hundreds days, with a peak to peak amplitude of 0.3 mag. The two maxima in the well known double hump binary cycle, as well as one of the minima between them, vary by a few percent relative to one another in a seemingly random way. One maximum is on the average higher than the other by 0.05 mag. The depth of the second minimum is varying with significantly higher amplitude, in clear correlation with the long term variability of the mean magnitude of the system. It is shallower than the other minimum at times of maximum light, and it becomes deeper at times of minimum system light. According to the commonly acceptable phasing of the binary cycle, the systematically varying minimum corresponds to inferior conjunction of the red dwarf in the system. We cannot suggest any simple geometrical model for explaining the regularities that we find in the long term photometric behaviour of the star.

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