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Reverse Algols

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

K.C. Leung
K.C. Leung*
Affiliation:
Behlen Observatory Department of Physics and Astronomy,University of Nebraska, Lincoln,NE,USA,68588-0111

Abstract

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An Algol is a binary system having a semidetached configuration where the less massive component is in contact with the critical equipotential surface. A reverse Algol is a binary system having a semidetached configuration where the more massive component is in contact with the critical equipotential surface. In 1985, Leung suggested 5 reverse Algol systems at the Beijing Colloquium. Two more such systems have been discovered recently. The spectral types of these systems range from early B to mid G. There is also a wide spread in mass ratio among these systems. There appear to be two types of reverse Algols, “hot” and “cool” systems. The hot systems have their more massive components as the hotter stars and the cool systems their more massive components as the cooler stars. The mass-radius relation of the reverse Algols is very similar to that of the contact and near-contact systems. It is believed that reverse Algols represent the pre-mass-reversal semidetached phase of close binary evolution. Since selection effects apply to both the regular Algols and reversed Algols in a similar manner, the evolutionary time scale between them would be simply the ratio of the number of confirmed systems of these two types of Algols.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 107: Algols , 1989 , pp. 279 - 288
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989

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