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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
earth and planetary sciences
BRITE observations of ν Centauri and γlupi, the first non-eclipsing members of the new class of nascent binaries
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 503, No. 4, Year 2021
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Results of an analysis of the BRITE-Constellation and Solar Mass Ejection Imager photometry and radial-velocity observations, archival and new, of two single-lined spectroscopic binary (SB) systems ν Centauri and γLupi are reported. In the case of γLup AB, a visual binary, an examination of the light-time effect shows that component A is the SB. Both ν Cen and γLup exhibit light variations with the orbital period. The variations are caused by the reflection effect, i.e. heating of the secondary's hemisphere by the early-B main sequence (MS) primary component's light. The modelling of the light curves augmented with the fundamental parameters of the primary components obtained from the literature photometric data and Hipparcos parallaxes, shows that the secondary components are pre-MS stars, in the process of contracting on to the MS. ν Cen and γLup A are thus found to be non-eclipsing counterparts of the B2 IV eclipsing binary (and a β Cephei variable) 16 (EN) Lac, the B5 IV eclipsing binary (and an SPB variable) μ Eri, and the recently discovered Large Magellanic Cloud nascent eclipsing binaries. © 2021 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.
Authors & Co-Authors
Jerzykiewicz, Mikołaj
Poland, Wroclaw
University of Wroclaw
Pigulski, Andrzej
Poland, Wroclaw
University of Wroclaw
Ratajczak, Milena
Poland, Wroclaw
University of Wroclaw
Poland, Warsaw
University of Warsaw
Handler, Gerald
Poland, Warszawa
Polish Academy of Sciences
Pablo, Herbert
United States, Cambridge
American Association of Variable Star Observers
Popowicz, Adam
Poland, Gliwice
Silesian University of Technology
Wade, Gregg A.
Canada, Kingston
Royal Military College of Canada
Zwintz, Konstanze
Austria, Innsbruck
Universität Innsbruck
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Citations: 4
Authors: 8
Affiliations: 8
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1093/mnras/stab846
ISSN:
00358711