Issue |
A&A
Volume 444, Number 3, December IV 2005
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|
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Page(s) | 895 - 904 | |
Section | Stellar structure and evolution | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20052782 | |
Published online | 05 December 2005 |
The qWR star HD 45166
I. Observations and system parameters
1
Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas, Universidade de São Paulo, 05508-900, São Paulo, SP, Brasil e-mail: steiner@astro.iag.usp.br
2
SOAR Telescope, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile e-mail: aoliveira@ctio.noao.edu
3
Laboratório Nacional de Astrofísica / MCT, CP21, Itajubá, MG, Brasil
Received:
28
January
2005
Accepted:
3
July
2005
The binary star HD 45166 has been observed since 1922 but its orbital period has not
yet been found. It is considered a peculiar Wolf-Rayet star, and its assigned classification has varied.
For this reason we included the object as a
candidate V Sge star and performed spectroscopy in order to search for
its putative orbital period.
High-resolution spectroscopic observations show that the spectrum, in emission
and in absorption, is quite rich.
The emission
lines have great diversity of widths and profiles. The full widths at half maximum vary
from 70 km s-1 for the weakest lines up to 370 km s-1 for the most intense ones.
The hydrogen and helium lines
are systematically
broader than the CNO lines.
Assuming that HD 45166 is a double-line spectroscopic binary, it presents an orbital
period of day, with an eccentricity of e =
. In
addition, a search for periodicity using standard techniques reveals that the emission
lines present at least two other periods, of 5 and 15 h. The secondary star
has a spectral type of B7 V and, therefore, should have a mass of about
.
Given the radial velocity amplitudes, we determined the mass of the hot (primary) star as
and the inclination angle of the system,
i = 0.77
. As the
eccentricity of the orbit is non zero, the Roche lobes increase and decrease as a
function of the orbital phase. At periastron, the secondary star fills its Roche lobe.
The distance to the star has been re-determined as
kpc and a color
excess of
has been derived. This implies an absolute B magnitude
of -0.6 for the primary
star and -0.7 for the B7 star.
We suggest that the discrete absorption components (DACs) observed in the
ultraviolet with a periodicity similar to the orbital period may be induced by periastron
events.
Key words: techniques: spectroscopic / binaries: spectroscopic / stars: Wolf-Rayet
© ESO, 2005
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