Schematic representation (not to scale) of the views of BD+46°442 at different orbital phases. The dusty circumbinary disk has been omitted to enable us to more clearly illustrate gas flows in the vicinity of the components (the inner disk wall would be in all cases outside the boundaries of the figure). The inclination, both of the orbit and of the likely precessing jet, remains to be constrained. The arrow shows the direction of the giant’s motion. The figure illustrates how an accretion jet around the companion can explain the transient P Cyg-like profile of Hα, while a gas stream trailing behind the giant can explain the narrow absorption component of metal lines.