Issue |
A&A
Volume 429, Number 3, January III 2005
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Page(s) | 939 - 943 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20041724 | |
Published online | 05 January 2005 |
The pre-main sequence spectroscopic binary UZ Tau East: Improved orbital parameters and accretion phase dependence *
1
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain e-mail: ege@iac.es
2
University of Central Florida, Department of Physics, PO Box 162385, Orlando, FL 32816-2385, USA e-mail: ege@physics.ucf.edu
3
INAF – Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, Apartado 565, 38700, Santa Cruz de La Palma, Spain e-mail: magazzu@tng.iac.es
4
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique Observatoire de Grenoble, BP 53, 414 rue de la Piscine, 38041, Grenoble Cedex 9, France e-mail: delfosse@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr
5
Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 475 North Charter Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA e-mail: mathieu@astro.wisc.edu
Received:
23
July
2004
Accepted:
8
September
2004
We present radial-velocity measurements obtained using
high- and intermediate-resolution spectroscopic observations of the
classical T Tauri star UZ Tau East from 1994 to 1996.
We also provide measurements of
Hα equivalent widths and optical veiling.
Combining our radial-velocity data with those
recently reported by Prato et al. (2002), we improve the orbital elements for
this spectroscopic binary. The orbital period is days and the eccentricity is
. We find variability in the Hα emission and veiling, signposts
of accretion, but at periastron passage the accretion is not as clearly
enhanced as in the case of the binary DQ Tau. The difference in the behaviour of these two
binaries is consistent with the hydrodynamical models of accretion from circumbinary disks
because UZ Tau East has lower eccentricity than DQ Tau. It seems that enhanced periastron
accretion may occur only in systems with very high eccentricity (
).
Key words: stars: binaries: spectroscopic / stars: formation / stars: late-type / stars: pre-main sequence / accretion, accretion disks / stars: planetary systems: protoplanetary disks
Based on observations made with the Isaac Newton Telescope, operated on the island of La Palma by the Isaac Newton Group in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, the ESO 3.6-m telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile, and the Shane 3-m telescope at Lick observatory in California.
© ESO, 2005
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