Quest for the Donor Star in the Magnetic Precataclysmic Variable V1082 Sgr

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Authors
  • G. Tovmassian
  • J.F. González
  • M.-S. Hernández
  • D. González–Buitrago
Publication date 10-12-2018
Journal Astrophysical Journal
Article number 22
Volume | Issue number 869 | 1
Number of pages 10
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract
We obtained high-resolution spectra and multicolor photometry of V1082 Sgr to study the donor star in this 20.8 hr orbital period binary, which is assumed to be a detached system. We measured the rotational velocity ( km s-1), which, coupled with the constraints on the white dwarf mass from the X-ray spectroscopy, leads to the conclusion that the donor star barely fills 70% of its corresponding Roche lobe radius. It appears to be a slightly evolved K2-type star. This conclusion was further supported by a recently published distance to the binary system measured by the Gaia mission. At the same time, it becomes difficult to explain a very high (>10-9 ) mass transfer and mass accretion rate in a detached binary via stellar wind and magnetic coupling.
Document type Article
Note © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaec02
Other links http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ApJ...869...22T
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