Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016
The technique of back-projection Doppler tomography has been used to produce the first set of reconstructed images of chromospheric emission sources in the class of Algol-type binaries. The Hα emission sources in the Doppler tomograms include the gas stream, a sub-Keplerian accretion annulus, a quasi-stable accretion disk, and the chromosphere of the cool secondary star. The chromospheric images of several Algol secondaries (e.g., RS Vul, β Per, TX UMa, RW Tau) are consistent with that of the RS CVn binary V711 Tau.