Ellipsoidal variability of symbiotic giants
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
One of fundamental questions in relation to symbiotic binaries is the process of mass transfer - Roche lobe overflow or stellar wind - and possibility of an accretion disc formation. The presence of secondary minima in the quiescent light curves of YY Her, CI Cyg and BF Cyg apparently due to ellipsoidal changes of the red giant provides here important clues.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0210492,
title = {Ellipsoidal variability of symbiotic giants},
author = {J. Mikolajewska and E. A. Kolotilov and S. Yu. Shugarov and A. A. Tatarnikova and B. F. Yudin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0210492},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures. To appear in 'Symbiotic stars probing stellar evolution', eds. R.M.L. Corradi, J. Mikolajewska, T. Mahoney