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Can the propeller outflow from AE Aquarii be imaged directly?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Martin Still ,
Keith Horne  and
Christian Knigge
Martin Still
Affiliation:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD 20771, USAand , Universities Space Research Association
Keith Horne
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, Scotland
Christian Knigge
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Southampton University, Southampton SO17 1BJ, England

Abstract

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We calculate the Hα luminosity of an outflow nebula resulting from propeller action in AE Aqr. While the outflow is bright enough to be detected as an extended source, 1 arcsec across, it is dominated by the point-spread function (PSF) wings of the central object. By subtracting a PSF model from HST PC data we rule out the extreme models of high mass-loss rate combined with narrow-angle outflow, but more precise measurements are required to explore the propeller parameter space further.

Type
Part 6. Propeller Systems
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 190: Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables , 2004 , pp. 293 - 299
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004

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