Discovery of a bipolar and highly variable mass outflow from the symbiotic binary StHa 190
Abstract
A highly and rapidly variable bipolar mass outflow from StHa 190 has been discovered, the first time in a yellow symbiotic star. Permitted emission lines are flanked by symmetrical jet features and multi-component P-Cyg profiles, with velocities up to 300 km/sec. Given the high orbital inclination of the binary, if the jets leave the system nearly perpendicular to the orbital plane, the de-projected velocity equals or exceeds the escape velocity (1000 km/sec). StHa190 looks quite peculiar in many other respects: the hot component is an O-type sub-dwarf without an accretion disk or a veiling nebular continuum and the cool component is a G7 III star rotating at a spectacular 105 km/sec unseen by a large margin in field G giants.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0102192,
title = {Discovery of a bipolar and highly variable mass outflow from the symbiotic binary StHa 190},
author = {U. Munari and T. Tomov and B. F. Yudin and P. M. Marrese and T. Zwitter and R. G. Gratton and G. Bonanno and P. Bruno and A. Cali and R. U. Claudi and R. Cosentino and S. Desidera and G. Farisato and G. Martorana and G. Marino and M. Rebeschini and S. Scuderi and M. C. Timpanaro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0102192},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Letter to the Editor, Astron.Astrophys, in press