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Colours of the flickering source of Mira

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2019-04-02 v2

Abstract

We report photometric observations in Johnson UBV bands of the short term variability of Mira. The amplitude detected is 0.16 mag in B band. Adopting interstellar extinction E(B-V)=0, we find for the flickering source colour B-V=1.3, temperature T=3700 K, and radius R=0.77 Rsun. The colour of the flickering source is considerably redder than the average B-V colour of the cataclysmic variables.

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@article{arxiv.1903.03782,
  title  = {Colours of the flickering source of Mira},
  author = {R. Zamanov and S. Boeva and B. Spassov and G. Latev and U. Wolter and K. A. Stoyanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.03782},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

6 pages, accepted in Bulgarian Astron. Journal