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The Very Unusual Ultraviolet Spectra of R Arae
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
The high resolution ultraviolet spectra of the 4.4-day period binary R Arae, observed in 1980 with the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE), show that its continuum flux level varied outside of eclipse by more than a factor of two in ten days, and by over 50 percent within a same orbital cycle. The flux level varied non-monotonically at different wavelengths. The resonance lines of Mg II and Si IV exhibited shortward–shifted absorption components near phase 0.4, indicating the presence of a gas stream toward the observer at a velocity of some –450 to –500 km s–1. Our observations of R Arae with the Einstein satellite show it to be an X–ray source.
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- Part III: Evolutionary Processes in Close Binary Systems
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