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The effects of binarity in driving CP phenomena

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

A lot of evidence has recently accumulated that physical characteristics of CP stars (delta m_1, Ca/Fe ratio, Li abundance, distribution of orbital periods, vsini, Delta (V1-G), magnetic field) depend on orbital period or eccentricity. Consequently, the "tidal mixing + stabilization" hypothesis has been formulated to account for such features and the "binarity x magnetism" hypothesis of Abt & Snowden (1973) was reanalyzed. We conclude that all mentioned characteristics and properties of CP stars, including even CP star magnetism, may be affected or governed by binarity.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9805055,
  title  = {The effects of binarity in driving CP phenomena},
  author = {J. Budaj},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9805055},
  year   = {2007}
}

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5 pages, no figure, to appear in: Proc. of the 26th workshop of the European Working Group on CP stars, eds. P. North, A. Schnell and J. Ziznovsky, Contrib. Astr. Obs. Skalnate Pleso Vol. 27, No 3