The emission of the RS CVn binaries in the IRAS passbands.

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Jan 1996

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Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement, v.115, p.61

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Binaries: Close, Circumstellar Matter, Infrared: Stars

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In the literature, there is an ambiguity pertaining to the existence of a far-IR excess in RS CVn systems. In the current paper we undertook a study of the behaviour of 103 such systems in the IRAS passbands. We found 72 acceptable detections in the 12μm band, and 40 in the 25μm band (50% more than the IRAS Point Source Catalog). Although our findings may be interpreted as indicating towards the existence of an excess beyond 12μm for some systems, the evidence is not conclusive in all but two cases. These are systems GX Lib and HR 7428, with Capella being the only system where the IRAS fluxes in all four bands originate from the stellar photosphere. Given the accuracy of the data we did not find 12μm excess for any system. We argue that the IRAS data alone cannot settle the issue, as their uncertainty is, in many cases, higher than what the Signal-to-Noise ratio of each observation implies. Furthermore, at the higher wavelength bands the IRAS angular resolution drops from 0.5' at 12μm to 2' at 100μm and the background becomes very complex, so one cannot be certain about the origin of the observed flux. The existence of IR excess in the RS CVn stars is important as far as the evolutionary scenarios for these systems are concerned. Future missions such as the Infrared Space Observatory will return more sensitive and accurate measurements and the ambiguity can be removed. The fluxes we quote will be helpful when planning these future observations, as we provide more accurate photometry and for a larger selection of sources than the IRAS Point Source Catalog.

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