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Rotation Broadening and the Shapes of W Ursae Majoris Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Lawrence Anderson ,
Malcolm Raff  and
Frank H. Shu
Lawrence Anderson
Affiliation:
University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio U.S.A.
Malcolm Raff
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, California U.S.A.
Frank H. Shu
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, California U.S.A.

Abstract

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We extract rotation broadening functions from the spectra of W Ursae Majoris Stars. Using a fast Fourier transform we deconvolve photographic spectra, covering some 500 A including dozens of strong lines, with equivalent spectra from non-rotating stars of similar spectral type. The resulting rotation functions contain information about global features such as the shape of the stellar surface (e.g. mass ratio and degree of contact), gravity brightening and limb darkening. We present preliminary data on the stars VW Cep and ER Vul. The rotation function of the former reveals the presence of the third component found visually by Heintz (1975), while that of the latter shows it to be detached and have mass ratio 0.9.

Type
IX. Contact Binaries
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 88: Close Binary Stars: Observations and Interpretation , 1980 , pp. 485 - 489
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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