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Scientific paper
Aug 1982
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982natur.298..540k&link_type=abstract
Nature, vol. 298, Aug. 5, 1982, p. 540-542.
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Binary Stars, Nebulae, Peculiar Stars, Stellar Mass Ejection, Stellar Spectra, Variable Stars, Hubble Space Telescope, Stellar Mass Accretion
Scientific paper
Observations of the variable star R Aquarii from 1928 to the present are examined to conclude that the star is a binary system with a jet. The orbital period of the objects is estimated at 22 yr, and a supercritical mass transfer that occurs once every 44 yr is suggested as a mechanism to explain deep minima observed on two occasions that many years apart. Calculations presented for the critical accretion rate of the two Miras indicated that one of the objects possesses a substantially stronger gravitational field than the other and features a large accretion disk. Oriental astronomical records from 930 AD are cited as evidence that a nova occurred in the vicinity of R Aquarii at that time. The system is noted to be the closest jet thus far observed, and the accretion disk may be visible with the Space Telescope.
Kafatos Menas
Michalitsianos Andrew G.
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