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A highly flattened Secondary Star in the Young Eclipsing Binary BM Orionis*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Douglas S. Hall

Abstract

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A model is proposed for BM Ori to explain why DOREMUS saw only the early B star in the spectrum, whereas the light curve seemed to predict an equally bright cooler star which should have been seen alone at supposed totality. The cool star is assumed to be a disk-shaped object, similar in shape to that proposed by HUANG for ε Aur, seen nearly edge-on. By means of various restraints, it is estimated that the disk covers about 55% of the B star at primary eclipse. This leads to the relative luminosities (Lh = 0.74, 0.87 and 0.92 in V, B, and U), the color of the disk (the opposite side of the disk has the color of a G or F giant), the relative geometrical dimensions (rB = 0.09, rD = 0.25, and the height of the disk h≈0.1), and the orbital inclination (i ≈ 90°). The model with these parameters predicts a theoretical light curve which represents the observations as well as did the solution of HALL and GARRISON, which was based on spherical stars.

Type
IV. Duplicity and its Consequences among the Intrinsic Variable Stars
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 15: New Directions and Frontiers in Variable Stars Research , 1971 , pp. 217 - 229
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

Footnotes

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Reprints of the Arthur J. Dyer Observatory, Ser. XX, No. XX.

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