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Circumstellar discs in X/gamma-ray binaries: first results from the Echelle spectrograph

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2015-09-15 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

Here we report our first spectral observations of Be/X-ray and gamma-ray binaries obtained with the new Echelle spectrograph of the National Astronomical Observatory Rozhen. For four objects (LSI+61303, gamma Cas, MWC 148, 4U 2206+54), we report the parameters and estimate the sizes of their circumstellar discs using different emission lines (H-alpha, H-beta, H-gamma, HeI and FeII). For MWC 148, we find that the compact object goes deeply through the disc. The flank inflections of H-alpha can be connected with inner ring formed at the periastron passage or radiation transfer effects. We point out an intriguing similarity between the optical emission lines of the γ\gamma-ray binary MWC 148 and the well known Be star γ\gamma Cas.

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@article{arxiv.1509.04191,
  title  = {Circumstellar discs in X/gamma-ray binaries: first results from the Echelle spectrograph},
  author = {R. Zamanov and K. Stoyanov and J. Martí},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.04191},
  year   = {2015}
}

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presented at the 10th conference of Astronomical Society of Bulgaria (Belogradchik, 2-5 July 2015); to appear in Blg AJ, v. 24 (2015)