MWC656: A Be+BH or a Be+sdO?
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2022-08-29 v1
Abstract
MWC656 has been reported as classical Be star with a black hole companion. Revisited spectral variability properties render this unlikely, with a hot subdwarf more probable.
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@article{arxiv.2208.12315,
title = {MWC656: A Be+BH or a Be+sdO?},
author = {Th. Rivinius and R. Klement and S. D. Chojnowski and D. Baade and K. Shepard and P. Hadrava},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.12315},
year = {2022}
}
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To be published in IAUS361 proceedings
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