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The Massive Close Binary in the δ Ori A Triple System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

James A. Harvin  and
Douglas R. Gies
James A. Harvin
Affiliation:
Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
Douglas R. Gies
Affiliation:
Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA

Abstract

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We present an analysis of short-wave, high-dispersion ultraviolet spectra of the triple star δ Ori A from the International Ultraviolet Explorer Satellite’s (IUE) Final Archive. These spectra were cross-correlated against AE Aur to find the components’ radial velocities, which were then used to produce the system’s orbital elements. The long-period tertiary star in the δ Ori A system was not seen in the resulting cross-correlation functions (CCFs). The close binary’s eclipses allow the orbit’s inclination to be estimated by modeling of its Hipparcos light curve. The primary star appears to have a mass of 11.2 M⊙ and the secondary seems to have a mass of 5.6 M⊙, both of which are about 1/3 of the expected values for stars of their MK types. Although we expected the massive close binary in the δ Ori A system to be a pre-Roche lobe overflow (RLOF) system, these masses appear to require that it be a post-RLOF system. The full description of this work, including the tomographic separation of the spectra for the close binary’s components, appears in Harvin et al. (2002).

Type
Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 187: Exotic Stars as Challenges to Evolution , 2002 , pp. 47 - 52
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2002

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