Optical photometry and X-ray monitoring of the "Cool Algol" BD+05 706: Determination of the physical properties

Details Optical photometry and X-ray monitoring of the "Cool Algol" BD+05 706: Determination of the physical properties Optical photometry and X-ray monitoring of the "Cool Algol" BD+05 706: Determination of the physical properties

2003-03-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0303152v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

38 pages including 8 figures and 11 tables. To appear in The Astronomical Journal, June 2003

Scientific paper

10.1086/375203

We present new photometric observations in the BVRI bands of the double-lined eclipsing binary BD+05 706 conducted over three observing seasons, as well as new X-ray observations obtained with the ROSAT satellite covering a full orbital cycle (P = 18.9 days). A detailed light-curve analysis of the optical data shows the system to be semidetached, confirming indications from an earlier analysis by Torres et al. (1998), with the less massive and cooler star filling its Roche lobe. The system is a member of the rare class of cool Algol systems, which are different from the "classical" Algol systems in that the mass-gaining component is also a late-type star rather than a B- or A-type star. By combining the new photometry with a reanalysis of the spectroscopic observations reported by Torres et al. (1998) we derive accurate absolute masses for the components of M1 = 2.633 +/- 0.028 Msun and M2 = 0.5412 +/- 0.0093 Msun, radii of R1 = 7.55 +/- 0.20 Rsun and R2 = 11.02 +/- 0.21 Rsun, as well as effective temperatures of 5000 +/- 100 K and 4640 +/- 150 K for the primary and secondary, respectively. There are obvious signs of activity (spottedness) in the optical light curve of the binary. Our X-ray light curve clearly shows the primary eclipse but not the secondary eclipse, suggesting that the primary star is the dominant source of the activity in the system. The depth and duration of the eclipse allow us to infer some of the properties of the X-ray emitting region around that star.

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