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The Relation Between RS CVn and Algol

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Douglas S. Hall
Douglas S. Hall*
Affiliation:
Dyer Observatory, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, U.S.A.

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Late-type secondaries in Algol binaries are rapidly rotating convective stars and thus should be chromospherically active (CA). They are examined with respect to observational manifestations which characterize already known CA stars: Ca II H and K emission cores, photometric variability attributable to starspots, soft x-ray emission, non-thermal radio emission, ultraviolet and infrared excess, and alternating period changes. The conclusion is that they can be regarded as another class of CA stars. In most respects they are literally indistinguishable from other CA stars. Ca II H and K emission cores are observed in the lobe-filling component of six semi-detached binaries: U Cep, RT Lac, RV Lib, AR Mon, S Vel, HR 5110. Alternating period changes are shown to occur only in Algols containing a late-type (convective) star. It is proposed, therefore, that the Matese-Whitmire mechanism explains these changes. Specifically, the interval from one increase (or decrease) to the next can be equated with the star’s magnetic cycle. Cycle lengths for 31 stars, derived in this way, range between 7 years and 109 years, with a median of 50 years.

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Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 107: Algols , 1989 , pp. 219 - 233
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989

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