Issue |
A&A
Volume 615, July 2018
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Article Number | A131 | |
Number of page(s) | 12 | |
Section | Stellar atmospheres | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629914 | |
Published online | 26 July 2018 |
Spectroscopic time-series analysis of R Canis Majoris★,★★
1
Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg,
Sternwarte 5,
07778
Tautenburg, Germany
e-mail: lehm@tls-tautenburg.de; pertermann@tls-tautenburg.de
2
Crimean Federal University,
Vernadsky av. 4,
295007
Simferopol, Crimea
3
KU Leuven, Instituut voor Sterrenkunde,
Celestijnenlaan 200,
3001
Leuven, Belgium
e-mail: andrew.tkachenko@kuleuven.be
4
National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand,
260 Moo 4, T. Donkaev, A. Maerim,
Chiang Mai
50180, Thailand
Received:
17
October
2016
Accepted:
29
March
2018
R Canis Majoris is the prototype of a small group of Algol-type stars showing short orbital periods and low mass ratios. A previous detection of short-term oscillations in its light curve has not yet been confirmed. We investigate a new time series of high-resolution spectra with the aim to derive improved stellar and system parameters, to search for the possible impact of a third component in the observed spectra, to look for indications of activity in the Algol system, and to search for short-term variations in radial velocities. We disentangled the composite spectra into the spectra of the binary components. Then we analysed the resulting high signal-to-noise spectra of both stars. Using a newly developed program code based on an improved method of least-squares deconvolution, we were able to determine the radial velocities of both components also during primary eclipse. This allowed us to develop a better model of the system including the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect and to derive improved orbital parameters. Combining the results with those from spectrum analysis, we obtain accurate stellar and system parameters. We further deduce at least one oscillation frequency of 21.38 c d−1. It could be detected during primary eclipses only and confirms a previous photometric finding. Results point to an amplitude amplification of non-radial pulsation modes due to the eclipse mapping effect. The presence of a He I line in the spectra indicates mass transfer in the R CMa system. Calculations of its Roche geometry give evidence that the cool secondary component may fill its Roche lobe. No evidence of a third body in the system could be found in the observed spectra.
Key words: binaries: eclipsing / binaries: spectroscopic / stars: oscillations / stars: variables: delta Scuti
Based on observations made with the Mercator Telescope, operated on the island of La Palma by the Flemish Community, at the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias.
The journal of observations and the measured radial velocities are only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/615/A131
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