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A New Model for Algol (β Persei)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Mercedes T. Richards ,
C. T. Bolton  and
S. W. Mochnacki
Mercedes T. Richards
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia,Charlottesville, Virginia 22903, U.S.A.
C. T. Bolton
Affiliation:
David Dunlap Observatory,University of Toronto,P.O. Box 360, Richmond Hill Ontario L4C 4Y6, Canada
S. W. Mochnacki
Affiliation:
David Dunlap Observatory,University of Toronto,P.O. Box 360, Richmond Hill Ontario L4C 4Y6, Canada

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We studied the circumstellar gas in Algol (β Persei) by analysing Hαdifference profiles (observed profiles minus composite theoretical (LTE) photospheric absorption line profiles of the stars), at 98 phases in the binary’s orbit (cf. Richards 1986, Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto). The data were obtained from Sept. 1976 to Dec. 1977; with an average phase interval of 0.02 over the entire orbit.

There was a smooth change in the profiles from strong, redshifted emission just outside primary eclipse, to an almost flat profile at mid-secondary eclipse, to strong, blueshifted emission just before primary eclipse began. Absorption was detected throughout primary eclipse, and there were smooth transitions between pure absorption and pure emission. The emission and absorption had FWHM’s of ~200 km s−1 and ~200 to 450 km s−1, respectively; with line strengths up to 10% and 19% of the continuum, respectively.

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Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 107: Algols , 1989 , pp. 358
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Copyright © Kluwer 1989